When Calvin Crookes realizes that his scheme to stop Jadwin has failed, he quickly gets out of the market. But he also reflects bitterly, "Oh, yes, you'll run a corner in what will you? All right... Your own wheat, my smart Aleck, will do all the killing I want" (291). At this point, it is apparent that Crookes has realized that Curtis Jadwin, the unknown bull, has become obsessed with the desire to corner the market and own all the wheat in the Chicago Market, but Crookes also realizes the outcome of Jadwin's plan. Jadwin's sole desire-the wheat will destroy him in the end. Inevitably, Crookes is correct in his prediction. The wheat itself stopped Jadwin; it grew so that Jadwin would stop believing that he could have dominion over all the wheat. However before stopping Jadwin in his cornering the market, the wheat also destroyed Jadwin's rational mentality...