Orwell criticizes Gandhi's position a couple different times throughout this short passage. He states about loving people as Gandhi talks about not having close friends. And he also states about not having to be perfect all the time. First off, Orwell uses quotations to give readers factual evidence of what Gandhi talked about. Gandhi said, "friends react on one another," basically saying that close friendships are hard to have because you both influence each other. But Orwell made a counter argument saying that yes what Gandhi said was true but most people when they think of loving , they think of loving people more than others (close friends). With Gandhi most people take from his messages that we basically have to try to get
