I was going to write this with the clergyman's Daughter but for a blog post that turned into a super large monster so I decided to do this later and tried to keep it shorter as I have lots of work to do and could easily spend all my year writing my blog and reading books.
Anyway a Coming Up For Air takes the narrative view of Tom Bowling. A sometimes crude fellow who makes cipher for Orwells thoughts about the changes in Britain and the coming WWII. Orwell discusses the impact of WWI on peoples mindset saying its not that the past was necessarily better but in a sentimental way people had this innocence that everything would remain the same, life would always go on as usual. Secondly Orwell develops ideas on the unattainability of our, past using Tom having an urge to return to his home village and then finding his town is utterly eaten up by development and his idyllic fish pond has changed into a rubbish dump. Thus also complaining the best of britain was being destroyed by industrialisation. As always Orwell displays a very penetrating view of reality , which kind of like a scientist with a microscope helps us to discover many of the layers which make it up.
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