Catherine Blount pointed also to the theme of a London couple needing to go into the countryside in order to find a private place to have sex, which has a significant place in the plot of "Aspidistra" and which is taken up prominently in "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Orwell biographer D. J. Taylor said of Comstock, "Like Dorothy in "A Clergyman’s Daughter" and like Winston Smith in "Nineteen Eighty-Four", he rebels against the system and is ultimately swallowed up by it ... Like Winston Smith, he rebels, the rebellion fails, and he has to reach an accommodation with a world he’d previously disparaged".