Upton Sinclair said of his 1906 novel The Jungle, "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach." What did he mean by that statement?(1 point) Responses Hoping to write a best-selling novel, he instead wrote an exposé of the exploitation of the workers in the meatpacking industry. Hoping to write a best-selling novel, he instead wrote an exposé of the exploitation of the workers in the meatpacking industry. Hoping to show the plight of meatpacking workers, he revealed more powerfully the industry's extremely unsanitary conditions. Hoping to show the plight of meatpacking workers, he revealed more powerfully the industry's extremely unsanitary conditions. Hoping to write a best-selling novel, he instead wrote an exposé of the monopolistic practices of the meatpacking industry. Hoping to write a best-selling novel, he instead wrote an exposé of the monopolistic practices of the meatpacking industry. Hoping to show the unsanitary conditions of meatpacking, he revealed more powerfully the plight of that industry's workers.

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Hoping to show the plight of meatpacking workers, he revealed more powerfully the industry's extremely unsanitary conditions.