I've heard the expression "vomiting from the mouth" concerning someone who doesn't know when to stop speaking, and Wells vomits an enormous amount of words in this book letting us all know over and over again the pitiful state of the world before the change of the comet. the main character isn't a man that I could ever respect. He believe thinks too highly of himself, has a terrible slow boiling temper, and makes terrible decisions while disrespecting pretty much everybody his hard working poor mother. How does he know there is love between him and Nellie when he's hardly seen her and cares more for his words he writes her through the mail (the basis for their entire relationship ) than her own. Plus, she's a terrible person--running off with a rich man that will one day cast her aside when he's through with her. Strict conformity of class conscience permeates society well into the twentieth century. Look at the Titanic, who locked the poor so the more deserving rich could …show more content…
The poorer classes speech, eating habits and general filth would have made them miserable in their newly boxed in world. The main reason I disdain her decision is the chaos and shame she leaves for her family to bear. Any standing they had in the community would be dashed, and this would reflect on any younger siblings also. This book is seventy five percent before the comet, and after the comet it still contains verbiage of the horror before the comet. Dude, we get it, and it was bad. People lived He speaks of shoes hurting so bad that no one left their home unless forced too. Baths were non existant and the pitiful attitude of the rich. The poor clothing, homes, diet and medical care. His mother tells him about his sister that died due to lack of a doctor. A doctor would not come to their home unless he was paid up front, and they didn't have any money, and so she died due to greed and