Reading a book isn't what is required to be a reader? How's that work? [/QB][/quote]I think I understand where he is coming from. Some readers never look beyond the story. They just read a book and run along contentley, never thinking of the symbolisim or the statement the author is trying to make in his work.

Of course, we like tho think that this is a new development. Fact is that some people don't appeciate art for what it is or can be... A source of enlightement. That's the purpose of criticisim and analysis. To discover such things.

That said, it hurts to over-analyze. Then the work looses it's steem, and that whole sense of telling a story. SOmetimes, works don't need to be anylized. They are just cahreceter studies or just really good stories.

All variables shouldbe taken into consideration. Sorry for the rant.