Quote Originally Posted by davedove
I always get kind of irritated with this type of analysis. How does this guy know this is what Seuss meant to symbolize? Maybe Seuss was just having a weird day! Now if that's what the reviewer got out of it, that's fine. In fact, the best authors can be read by ten different people who will get ten different interpretations. But don't say this is what the author meant unless he says so.
You'd be suprised what people will come up with when they are forced to do something. If I had to guess where this originated, I'd say some college professor assigned the book for review and some kid with a couple of psych classes under his belt decided to throw in everything he could think of, including the kitchen sink.