There's a nice quote by Mark Twain at the beginning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that touches on this.
"Persons attempting to find a Motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a Moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a Plot in it will be shot."
Like everyone has said, literary analysis varies for me. Some critics have opened my eyes to things and made me think about a story in a way I never would have before. Others make me angry and feel like I need to defend the author.
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