What happens when you are living in a foreign city and your money runs out? It Seems obvious fact George Orwell the writer George Orwell and the down-and-out are two different people. After all, one had considerably more resources than the other, Including a somewhat contradicted knowledge of society than your average clochard. HOWEVER, Regardless of Whether it what for the sake of a writer's experience, George Orwell did survive the grueling experience of working near the bottom of the Parisian hotel / restaurant trade as a plongeur. Most of us would have caught the first train home with funds stolen or otherwise procured in a jiffy. Naturally, working down in the airless depths of a hotel meant meeting many odd bods thatwere otherwise out of Orwell's orbit and this is part of the delight of this excursion into the subterranean world of the servant classes. The book which written in the 30s, at a time When the European Society what about to undergo the transformation Caused by its second bloodletting in Three Decades. Orwell takes us back to a period When Men sweated freely at Their work, in almost impossible conditions, and Considered Themselves to be among Those Who were better off! It makes one wonder today That Road gangs (the workers were called "navvies" in Britain) used to do all the work by hand, Which is now done by enormous machines with a little group of workers standing around looking, waiting to tidy up. backbreaking work is a thing of the past for most of us, but it lingers on in the memory of our grandfathers and comes to life in Orwell's finetext about a forgotten lifestyle of yesteryear. Further His excursion into the shelters for the homeless in England is therefore of interest. There was a way of life, of people always on the move, occasionally finding seasonal work, (Represented by the hobo in America and the swaggy in Australia), Which was well known to many people but which, even then, Coming to an End , Interesting portraits of an Age from a writer who led a sheltered life far from himself.
