Keep the Aspidistras flying

I am reading 'Keep the aspidistras flying', not yet finished. I cannot help but speak out of turn, if not out loud, at least a gesture - a slightly irritated look, just to make the narrator along with his protagonist to come to a pause. I have to say, Gordon Comstock is a fool. Immature. He wouldn't borrow from Ravelston, but from her sister, because relatives 'obviously' dosen't count. His fight against the money-god. Money in general? - doesn't he forget money is not only from those bill boards, but from hard labour or skilled labour. Why does he demean MakeGood jobs, why is a writing career far more better than make good jobs. I believe at the root of all his foolishness is idealism. He cannot be satisfied with a writing career in advertising or copyright. It is 'whoring out' for him. Why could he not keep his job, wasn't it the next best thing? Off course, he couldn't have written that poem if he didn't quit. Self-imposed poverty was required. Wasn't he pretending to be what he was not? A poet would not have gone against the money-god with all his might as Gordon did, the poet simply wouldn't have been interested.
Oh, how I wish I would have been there to talk some sense into him! Or maybe let him talk some into me.

-- Few days later--

I don't remember if I have ever had that happy feeling after reading a book. I wasn't able to refrain my smile for at least few minutes. And it was not only because of this single book, but I think was also due to my past experience with Orwell. I read 1984 and I was left depressed for quite a few days, if I remember correctly. At one level, I was never expecting this kind of ending from him after that. The flow was almost like 1984, and as I was getting close to the end, I could feel the dread sinking in deep and deep. But then there was the turn at the last moment, and my first thought was that oh, Orwell decided to take that turn, and kind of, on purpose, tricked his audience. But on second thought, the turn wasn't actually there, from his point of view 1984 and the aspidistras ended the same way. In both the protagonist trying to fight the system, eventually fails. But in one I was left with pain, misery and depression, in the other, it could not have been more joyful.