/lit/ - Literature

>>8509620
For meta parallactic reasons w/r/t literary criticism. It creates depth. This is no joke, don't be so quick to dismiss it

>>8494393
What a fucking spaz, he's giving me the howling fantods

I enjoy reading literature but I'm terrible at picking out all of that shit they taught in school.
>what did he mean by this
>this symbolizes x
>this was a metaphor for thing
>this character served as a narrative device for
Whenever I finish a book I look at the wikipedia article to see what was going on and feel retarded in how I miss so many basic things. When people say things like, "He didn't describe the curtain as blue just to set a scene" I have no idea what they're getting at.