Bowling himself was afraid of the future and he seems surrounded by people who refuse to see the future. His friend Old Porteous mind stopped working "at about the time of the Russo-Japanese War. It's a ghastly thing that nearly all of the decent people, the people who don't want to go round smashing faces in with spanners, are like that. They're decent, but their minds have stopped."

So as Bowling asks, "The last thing I remember wondering before I fell asleep was why the hell a chap like me should care." It was Orwell's little man who was trapped in a world that he didnot control. Like Winston Smith in 1984 or Mike Flory in Burmese Days, George Bowling did not control his fate but was shaped by the forces around him. When Bowling went back home to revisit his past, he saw what he had become. He ran into his old girlfriend but she had aged, as he had done. When he returned from his trip home, his wife accused him of cheating and he probably wished that he did. So Bowling existed in a middle class trapped, waiting for apocalypse with Germany.

Animal Farm was a what Orwell calls a "fairy tale." Animal farm began with detailing the oppression of farm life under man and the rebellion that freed them. Led by the pigs, the farm animal begins to reorganize their defenses against the human counterattack and simultaneously begin rebuilding the farm. The two leaders of the rebellion were Snowball, who represented Trotsky, and Napoleon who resembled Joseph Stalin. It was no accident that Napoleon was Europe first fascist and Orwell equated Stalin with Nazism and fascism. In Orwell mind, if you oppose Fascism, you had to oppose communism.

What happens is that after Snowball became a hero when he led the counterattack against the farmers who attempted to retake the Animal farm. Through the effort of Napoleon, Snowball became a non-person. Napoleon exiled Snowball was reminiscence of when Stalin exiled Trotsky, whose leadership helped shape the Red Army during the Civil War in 1920 vs. the White Army. It was as if Snowball was flushed from the pages of history and this point that totalitarians needed to control history would be made stronger in 1984.

Snowball's exploits were twisted not as the historical exploit that they were but as act of collaboration. Snowball becomes a bogeyman that becomes a threat to the revolution, thus giving the other animals some one to hate along with the human farmers. When things go wrong, Napoleon simple blamed a non-existent Snowball just as Stalin would blame his opponents of being allies of Trotsky, who was living overseas and truly powerless to influence events in the Soviet Union.