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Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell







Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

 This is the fourth book of George Orwell I have read and he is yet to disappoint me. The       book asks us a question that everyone goes through at some point of our life, mainly after graduating from college and we need a job and we see that the guy who earns more gets a good woman and we are left out from the league. 

In the book we are introduced to a shabby, moth eaten, in the threshold of turning thirty, a person who is discontented about almost everything he sees in this world. He has decided to live out of the economic system and only work for the minimal amount of money that he needs for lodging and tobacco.  He has left his 'good job' at New Albion to work in a shabby second hand bookshop. 



Though he has decided to be a part of the system of money ironically always ends up thinking the most about money. He has always seen desperation and loneliness in his family and he equates it to money problem. Even he thinks that Rosemary would not sleep with him because he doesn't possess enough money to keep her happy. Though he has a sour aura around him we see him being supported by some lovely persons like Ravelston, Rosemary and Julia, who are always ready to help him in any circumstance.
Though he is in a poor condition he never leaves the air of supremacy from the uneducated lot of people but also doesn't try not to judge the ones who possess money. He has published a book of poems which has been a fail and is working on a second one. He always thinks about money at it leads him to get diverted from all the things in this world.
It is quite an interesting book. We see the man who is against worshiping the money God thinking about money and worshiping him the most. Orwell as always has brought out a scene from the society which we can find relevant till now. When you read the book you will see how our society still today is controlled by money and how hard it is to live outside the societal boundary.
I found this book a piece that will make you brainstorm even after you have finished reading it.

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