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Originally Posted by HarryT
Isn't that the whole point of studying literature, though: to teach you how to understand what lies beneath the surface?
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Indeed, and that's fine so long as you're finding meanings that the author actually intended to convey. The way it currently seems to work, however, is that far too much is read into it, and deeper meanings are pronounced where there's no real indication that the author had the remotest intention of implying any of it.