Before reading this novel, I never thought that there were such complicated official positions and titles in British officialdom! On the contrary, a person who applies for a patent right has to constantly pay for himself, almost spending the only inheritance that he has been reluctant to use; What was originally planned to be completed in a week at most was delayed by these "blood-sucking" officials for six weeks. Every time I go to the office, every time I meet an official, I have to give money-which shocked me. A poor man at the bottom of society sends money to a group of officials who are extremely rich! Moreover, money snowballs, you have to meet some officials again and again and give money again and again, but John, as a poor man, dare not complain! Don't want to give it? Sure! Then give the patent right to others! Give the fruits of twenty years' efforts to others? What a hateful group of parasites this is, what a dark society this is, and what a cruel reality this is!
The language of this novel is simple to a special degree. Even a little wordy, completely different from literary talent. It's more like an old man trying to organize language. But it is such a language that will make you feel that this is a true story of a poor man! The author conquered you with this pure simplicity, which not only aroused your infinite pity for the poor, but also aroused your greatest indignation against the "officials" in officialdom! It will make us think deeply … deeply, painfully, thinking …