<Tab/>In Dubious Battle is not just a story of striking workers, but of Jim's development into a perfect Communist Party member and his demise. Mac is a detrimental figure for Jim, exploiting him and leading to his demise. In In Dubious Battle, Jim, the protagonist, enters the story (And the Communist Party) as an empty shell of a man, with little or no property, family, or purpose. Jim said himself, "…showed first 75 words of 631 total…

…showed last 75 words of 631 total…plight of other individuals or himself, and became completely enveloped in Communism, a cause that, in the end, would make all social injustices better. The desire for a belief that everything would turn out well in the end if we just did our best enveloped Jim, as Christianity and Islam have done to countless other downtrodden people - And that belief led to his death, as well as a final, bloody end to the strike.