![]() ![]() Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced.Įnlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence. George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying 44 likes Like What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. ![]()
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