![]() He etches the ugly insanity of what Gordon calls “the money-world” in unflinching detail, but the satire has a second edge, too, and Gordon himself is scarcely heroic. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell has created a darkly compassionate satire to which anyone who has ever been oppressed by the lack of brass, or by the need to make it, will all too easily relate. ![]() Always broke, but too proud to accept charity, he rarely sees his few friends and cannot get the virginal Rosemary to bed because (or so he believes), “If you have no money … women won’t love you.” On the windowsill of Gordon’s shabby rooming-house room is a sickly but unkillable aspidistra–a plant he abhors as the banner of the sort of “mingy, lower-middle-class decency” he is fleeing in his downward flight. ![]() ![]() Nearly 30 and “rather moth-eaten already,” a poet whose one small book of verse has fallen “flatter than any pancake,” Gordon has given up a “good” job and gone to work in a bookshop at half his former salary. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war. You can read this before Keep the Aspidistra Flying PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Keep the Aspidistra Flying written by George Orwell which was published in. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell ![]()
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