A Fable Story

Animal Farm is a pretty easy read. The chapters are short, and once you  begin to sympathize with some of the animals, the plot carries you along rather swiftly. Let’s go back for a minute to the title page and Orwell’s insistence on including “A Fable Story” beneath the Animal Farm title. Do you think the book can be read for plot alone? Does it matter if a reader links the events of the plot to Communist Russia under the rule of Stalin? Can the book be appreciated simply as a fable story? Why or why not? Defend your answer.