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But, like many a good novel, the journey is worth it. Without the knowledge of what has gone before, of life at the bottom rung of the ladder, of the self imposed hardship in the name of higher ideals, the pure simple joy of the destination reached at the end of the journey cannot be understood or appreciated for what it really is. Personal, unbridled, warmth and contentment. Stick with it... You won't regret it.
Although Gordon declares that he has waged war on the 'money god' you get the impression that his self induced poverty gives him justification for acting on principle. Certainly to an extent this is true but he does seem to be protecting himself from realities. He is content to find a place where he is comfortable. Shielded from faliure, expectation and the challanges and difficulties of simply living - money, ambition and hope are all obsolete. His final descent is harrowing but Gordon always has an air of listlessness as well as a perverse contentment.
It is only after Rosemary yields to 'the only thing that matters' does Gordon's chosen way of life alter and this is what Keep the Aspidistra Flying is about. It is about being alive or in Orwell's words being born, being, married, begetting, working and dying. It is with a real sense of delight that you leave the book with the knowledge that finally something has happened to the Comstock family.
Throughly recommended.
Any reader who shares Gordon's political views will no doubt sympathise with him but at the same time, will want to take him by the shoulders and shake the idealism and naivete out of him before he wrecks his relationship with his long-suffering girlfriend and sets himself on a path to self-destruction. Satirical, moving, funny and ultimately positive as Gordon learns the importance of compromise - the Orwell of 'Keep The Aspidistra Flying' is not the bleak, visonary Orwell of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'.
However, the descriptions of Gordon's seedy bedsit will make you want to go and have a bath straight away.
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