In the end, all was lost for the major characters. Flory public disgrace led to his suicide and this ensured U Po Kyin victory over Dr. Veraswami as his protector was dead. Dr. Veraswami joined second-rate club of fellow Indians and one European drunkard and his position in the community ravaged. U Po Kyin died a rich and powerful man but before his pagoda was built. This portended a religious defeat as he was left to wander in the afterlife. It is Orwell way of saying if you lose your soul, what you gained on earth is meaniless. Orwell final dig at colonialism was through a conversation between Dr. Veraswami and Flory. Dr. Veraswami tells Flory how the natives were lazy and only the British made things work. Even the natives blame their own for their failures. There are few heroes and few heroic acts in Burmese days.

Coming up for Air was different from his other works. It detailed the story of George Bowling, a middle age and middle class bloke who was disillusioned about his own life and his stifled marriage. On the horizon, he saw a war coming with Nazis Germany and as A World War I Veteran; he understood the horror of war.

His disillusionment of his marriage was detailed when George thinks, "When we were first married I felt I 'd like to strangle her, but later I got so that I didn't care. And then I got fat and settled down." Like all middle age men, he looked in the mirror and discovered not the man he was but the man he had become. "One night you go to bed, still feeling more or less young, with an eye for the girls and so forth," George says to himself, "And next morning you wake up in the full consciousness that you're just a poor old fatty with nothing ahead of you this side the grave except sweating your guts out to buy boots for the kids." What we see was the drudgery of middle class living with nothing to look forward and on top of that, a major war in which mass destruction and havoc just upon the horizon.

There was a need for humans to sometimes believe in the worse and certainly George Bowling somehow took aim at this urge after a meeting of local leftist denouncing the fascist, when he stated, " The Fascists are coming! Spanners ready, boys! Smash others or they'll smash you!" He observed or engages in wishful thinking when he concludes, "What'll will happen to chaps like me when we get Fascism in England? The truth is it probably won't make the slightest difference." Orwell's middle class were trapped in grind and no hope for advancement. Was there a difference for the George Bowlings of the world whether a democratically elected government rules or the fascists? There was dark side to Orwell view, as stated previously that he felt he was on the losing side of history.