the other thing about “the curtains are just blue because the author likes blue” “discourse” that always gets me is that. like. even if the curtains are just blue because the author likes blue, it doesn’t mean that interpretations that offer other meanings to the blue curtains are wrong. interpreting things within a story to have a deeper-than-surface-level meaning can be a valuable part of literature analysis even if the author didn’t intend it and/or if said interpretation may be considered a stretch.
plus, every story ever shows aspects of the creator, so maybe there’s some value in looking deeper even if the curtains are just blue because the author likes blue.
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