Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Breecher
What an amazing way to take a great work of literature and reduce it to nonsensical numbers!

;)

Seriously, though, I have a feeling if most authors knew how their texts were picked apart in classes they'd roll over in their graves and say, "I just liked the way that sounded," or "I don't know what I was thinking, I just wrote it and it turned out well." Don't get me wrong, I love literature, and I love how it makes me feel, but there's such a thing as overanalysis. It's only literature. It's made to be enjoyed, not tedium.

Andrew.
The majority of the popular literature people read is exactly that - a good story. Some stuff actually is written to make a point, and the better writers use analogies and metaphores to make their point emotionally and subliminally as well as using the direct approach. That's the stuff we're supposed to be analyzing.