![]() ![]() ![]() But an indignant outburst, howsoever clamorous, can hardly be a substitute for an objective analysis of the system. True, his protagonist Gordon Comstock, makes an unending tirade against poverty and a ceaseless refrain against the sterility of the modern waste land. ![]() Yet, while we must marvel at Orwell’s deft portrayal of the contemporary British society in all its comical aspects, we cannot unfortunately share the same admiration for his social critique in this novel. It is only with his Keep the Aspidistra Flying, that Orwell began to show his forte as a major sociological novelist of his era. The next, A Clergyman’s Daughter (1935), though dealing with a native English experience, is structurally disjointed and has an insufficient ideological focus. In his first book Burmese Days (1934) Orwell chronicled, as an Imperial Policeman, his mixed response to the colonial experience. Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying 1(1936) is his second work to be rooted to the concrete socio-cultural setting of the pre-war England. ![]()
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