For example, in the Dhôtel staff, all posts are not equal. The butler reign over a nation of waiters, who receive tips from customers. Then come the cooks. At the bottom of the chain, there is the plunger. In a reduced too small to stand in the constant heat of the kitchens, hands in the water all day. "The best that they can hope for is to find a less painful work as a night watchman or toilet attendant."
"And yet, as of their unenviable conditions, divers still their pride. This is the pride of the tramp of trouble the man quaucune amount of work can not shoot. At this level, the only virtue which is benefiting BE is capable of slaving away as a beast of burden. Shifty is what any diver would quon tell him. "
Orwell will go "even lower": he will have to beg to survive after losing his post, then returned to England where he joined the mass of "tramps" vagrants wandering Dasile night flophouse (English laws banning of the times to stay more than one night in the same asylum in a month), and having any food bread tea trio margarine in limited quantities.
A look at the daily misery dune hard to imagine today in our Western societies, and some stimulating reflections, particularly on the status of beggars in our society:
"But look more closely, we saperçoit that there is no fundamental difference between the means of a beggar dexistence and those of many respectable people. [] This is a job like any other. Useless of course but then many activities have wrapped dune fashionable are also unnecessary. [] Largent became stone under the key. "
One disappointment: contrary to what it seems to be reading the book, Orwell did not actually * was * forced to live in this misery Orwell admitted after the publication have reordered some events, and have voluntarily spent time among the vagabonds This undermines the credibility of the story.