I was wondering how you can find a good and useful way of interpreting novels and interpreting the symbolism! I mean, I've read through York notes but I have come to the firm conclusion that they are making it up as they go along! For example, you could get a passage where a couple are having a romantic conversation and drinking tea in the garden, and suddenly the tea symbolises the struggles that workers hundreds of years ago had to endure in the tea plantations and the hardships that they went through, and thus the tea symbolises injustice and moral corruption which makes the reader feel a sense of resentment towards the couple. I mean come on. I was admiring the guy's improvisation to impress the girl, not the tea. So, was wondering what the TRUE method and key is to obtain the wisdom to interpret texts?
- Alexander