Critically examine these lines: "...if a European woman went through bazaars alone somebody would probaly spit betel juice over her dress."

This line demonstrates what Orwell describes as an "aimless, petty...anti-European feeling" among the people of imperial Burma. Orwell says that the Burmese people do not openly riot or resist English rule, but rather engage in what he characterizes as rather sullen, day-to-day resistance. Orwell's narrator describes another incident in which the crowd jeered him after a Burmese player tripped him in a football match. Incidents like this show that the Burmese people view the English as oppressors, holding them in contempt. Of course, when the elephant storms through the bazaar, killing a man, Orwell is forced, he says, to shoot the beast. This is precisely because the mob demands that he do so. They expect him, as the representative of a violent system, to act violently, and there is no way he can get around it, he says, without "looking a fool." In a way, he has to live according to the worst expectations of the Burmese people, expectations that are expressed by the quote referenced in this question.