>“They didn’t have to do that”
Is there anything in a creative work that “has” to be done? The favorite thing that analysts love to point out is that “Oh, the blue curtains have to mean something, the author didn’t have to make them blue, but they choose to. They choose to make the curtains blue over something else”
Is it not possible that the artist wrote "He stood upon the stepladder" not because it represented the character rising in moral standing but simply because the character needed to reach something on the top shelf?
>>7389632
I always thought the curtains being blue was a garbage example to be used for this whole thing. The author could have made the curtains blue to set a mood, and I never see this brought up by either authorfags or deaththereoffags.
>>7389643
It's the only example /lit/ has, so they continually rehash it.
You think us capable of creating new arguments?
>>7389839
learn a real rigorous discipline, faggot
>Is it not possible that the artist wrote "He stood upon the stepladder" not because it represented the character rising in moral standing but simply because the character needed to reach something on the top shelf?
False Dichotomy. A good author does both at the same time.
i want that room in the OP's pic.
>>7391102
Why?
I can smell the mold in it from here...
>>7391102
fedora.jpg
>>7389850
Short of STEM, there aren't any.
>>7389850
Why?
>>7391476
thanks family <3
>>7391493
No problem. It's a very aesthetic room to be quiet honest. :3
>>7389632
>Is it not possible that the artist wrote "He stood upon the stepladder" not because it represented the character rising in moral standing but simply because the character needed to reach something on the top shelf?
If this is really how you think about literature I think you definitely need to kill yourself. Or at least leave this board you absolute fucking shithead.
>>7391527
I love aesthetic. :3
>>7391615
*blushes*
m-me too, sensei
>>7391620
I don't even like coffee but let's go get some anon-kun!!!
>>7391563
It's not a "bad" reading.
It simply puts plot advancement above all other qualities that literature might possess.
“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
- Ernest Hemingway
>>7391563
You're too caught up into finding a meaning to every small event in a book. This probably comes from you having been taught that authors meticulously hide symbols in every page at school, and that literary analysis consists of unearthing them. There's actually a good quote about this:
>In many college English courses the words myth and symbol are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain't no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing courses the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that's how Melville did it.
>>7393574
Hemingway is probably the greatest example of an author who doesn't deserve the works he wrote.
>>7393605
Now you're just spewing nonsense.
>>7393605
..what is this even supossed to mean?
