And, like Pooh and Piglet, they were inseparable. Toward the figures who may perhaps stand for his own parents, Milne is less indulgent. Later on. . . . I formed the opinion that, even if Father knew everything, he knew most of it wrong. It was Milne's genius to have created, working from such apparently simple materials, these universal types. The world of Pooh is without economic necessity or competition.
Aggression is limited to the mildest practical joke, and even that generally backfires.
It is a society of loyal and eccentric friends, in which the main occupations are eating, exploration, visiting and sports. Apart from occasional bad whether, it is a perfectly safe world. Milne even tells us that Christopher Robin, like Adam, gave names to his subjects. It seems no accident, therefore, that the threat of change and loss enters this Eden in the shape of a tree of knowledge. One day, Christopher Robin is discovered to be missing from the Forest.