Orwell’s ‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’ is a grim satire about capitalist 1920s London, where down and out poet Gordon Comstock insist to live his life waging war on what he deems the ‘money god’. The aspidistra becomes the symbol of accepting the mediocre worklife and getting-by within capitalist society, and the frequent use of that symbolism was pretty clever. In places Orwell’s dry humour was genuinely funny and as per usual his criticisms of society were second to none. With a poet as protagonist poetry was interwoven reflecting the bleak state of society which was a pleasant inclusion.
 

On the contrary, Gordon as a protagonist was by no means a great one, in declaring his war on ‘the money god’ he was whiny and insufferable, and while Orwell succeeded in not presenting any specific female characters awfully (what an achievement), Rosemary being such a powerhouse though also frustrating in her persistence with Gordon, generally the male characters were very assumptive and demeaning of the entire female sex. Orwell also curiously uses many character names featuring in his other works and he hasn’t written masses.