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   Last Updated September 5, 2023. The main character in George Orwell’s Coming Up For Air is George Bowling. He is a middle-aged man, complacent in his life. He works as an insurance salesman and ...

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Coming_Up_for_AirComing Up for Air - Wikipedia

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   Inside the Whale and Other Essays. Coming Up for Air is the seventh book and fourth novel by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. He delivered the completed manuscript to Victor ...

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3. www.supersummary.com › coming-up-for-air › themesComing Up for Air Themes - SuperSummary

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   In Coming Up For Air Orwell explores how the pressures of social class become internalized and affect one’s self-perception and perception of others. This is particularly so even for Bowling, who has experienced social mobility, moving from the working-class origins of his youth, via the army, to middle-class life as an insurance salesman.

4. www.jstor.org › stable › 26280259GEORGE ORWELL'S 'COMING UP FOR AIR': THE POLITICS OF ... - JSTOR

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   Coming Up for Air, Orwell's fourth novel, describes the develop. ment from a simpler, less industrialized society in which people felt. aa certain secure continuity with tradition and history to a highly in. dustrialized society in which individual liberties are being replaced. by a totalitarian technocracy.

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   Kindle $0.99. George Bowling, the hero of Orwell's comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before.

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6. www.orwellfoundation.com › coming-up-for-airComing Up for Air - The Orwell Foundation

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   Coming Up for Air. It all began the day when he got his new false teeth. George Bowling, a suburban insurance salesman, escapes London and an insidious sense of impending war to return to Lower Binfield, his childhood home near the Thames. Written in 1938 and published in 1939, Coming Up for Air captures the pre-war anxiety, the tension between ...

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   Who is George Bowling in coming up for air?

   • George Bowling, a suburban insurance salesman, escapes London and an insidious sense of impending war to return to Lower Binfield, his childhood home near the Thames. Written in 1938 and published in 1939, Coming Up for Air captures the pre-war anxiety, the tension between nostalgia and progress and deals with many similar themes to 1984.

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   Who is George Bowling?

   • George Bowling is a fat, married, middle-aged (45 years old) insurance salesman, with 'two kids and a house in the suburbs'. Orwell's brother-in-law, Humphry Dakin, the husband of Orwell's elder sister Marjorie, a 'short, stout, loquacious' man, thought that Bowling might be a portrait of him.

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   Is George Bowling a good book?

   • George Bowling is humorous, cynical, not always likable, and understandably worried about the future. Except for the overly long musings about George's childhood, "Coming Up for Air" is an entertaining and thoughtfully written novel. Orwell sen ne muhteşem bir yazarsın!

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   How does George Bowling feel in Lower Binfield?

   • Back to Lower Binfield!George Bowling feels trapped in his marriage and in his job as a traveling insurance salesman. He's humorous, middle-aged, overweight, and fearful of an impending war with Hitler.

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   Is George Bowling a sentimental person?

   • “I am sentimental about my childhood--not my own particular childhood, but the civilization which I grew up in and is now, I suppose, just about at its last kick.”It’s 1938, and George Bowling is a middle-aged insurance salesman.

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   How does George Bowling feel when he returns home?

   • George Bowling decides that it is time to return home, disillusioned with what he has found. Even his attempt at a flirtation with a woman in the hotel falls flat, and he realises that he does not look like a prosperous businessman after all. He was deceiving himself in everything.

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   Coming Up for Air. George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money on a horse, he decides to go back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years ...