How To Read Literature Like A Professor Summary

In Thomas C. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Chapter 12 is dedicated to symbols, and how they are not concrete. Symbolism is all about interpretation, which makes them difficult to understand. Foster says the most difficult thing about symbolism is that everyone wants to have one concrete answer. He argues that symbolism has multiple gray areas, and a majority of people confuses symbolism with allegories. Allegories are things that stand for one certain thing. Foster states that the same symbols do not always have the same meaning. He argues that the symbol depends on the style of writing used in the context. They will not always come to the same result, it will be different every time. These symbols can vary between