/lit/ - Literature

>>6712834
I understand your pain. I have never felt more idiotic than I did last semester taking a metric fuckton of math courses. I had taken multivariable calc two semesters before and couldn't pull a single memory out for Analysis. How do those profs keep that shit in their heads?

>>5420237

>Believing in symbolism

Why can't an author just put in a nice piece of imagery without everyone sperging out and claiming it represents money, fear, or the negative impacts of colonialism with respect to the Panama canal?

/lit/, this is me
>>4353683
>>4353696

Real talk.
I was going through my head about what I just posted about, thinking, why the hell doesnt this make sense? Yeah, these girls and women could just be saying bullshit, or they could not be. So I started to consider, what if theyre not. And then this post hit me.

>>4353700
and then this
>>4353703
then this
>>4353715

The reason these posts got to me, is I had a very similar reaction that I think these women are talking about, to Plath's Bell Jar, and I've heard very similar reactions about Austen.

With the Bell Jar, when I read, I just couldnt empathize with the main character. She was shallow as all fuck. All she cared about was her image, her clothing, and her social position, and nothing else. This really made me hate her and the book, and for a while I wondered why people considered Bell Jar the female version of Catcher in the Rye.

Are my reasons for disliking Bell Jar the same as what these women are talking about? I mean, I've never read Post Office so I cant be sure of what they are talking about, but I can figure it out. I mean I like a lot of literature that has deplorable characters, even female, like Dostoyevsky's Natalia in The Prince. Grade A bitch, grade A character. But I mean, am I still the same as these girls?

Im sincerely curious.

>>4182577
>Lindsey looked at Arianna for a moment, then at the tiling...
The reason I wrote that little bit is because I like describing character's actions and movements, and I think it adds to the attitude of the character. Do you agree?

>with a white background, but the white...
How would you describe the environment? Most of the short story is going to take place there, and its not that much description to begin with.

>its walls were covered in plastic since
Same as above, what would you have in its place?

> knowing he had lied about the moon.
I added that in there because I didnt want the reader to think that this character actually got lost looking at the moon.

Also, remember to edit things, then "publish" them. The more I looked at it...

>>4182360
Just the first draft, no intention of publishing it right now. Just put it on paste bin so its easier to show