Life became hard when Christopher Robin left the Thousand Acre Wood

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160128-a-a-milne-and-the-curse-of-pooh-bear


A. A. Milne, and son Christopher Robin

It was only after a frustrated period of fruitless job-searching after university that Christopher came to feel real resentment – toward both the stories and his father.

“He had made his own way by his own efforts and he had left behind him no path that could be followed."

“In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer, it seemed to me, almost, that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son.”