Deep Structure Narrative, Inc.

Doug Wilson:

One of the temptations that comes to people who learn how to see and identify “deep structures” in a narrative — adeptly twirling chiasms they have found, or anticipataory foreshadowing motifs, or whatnot — is that they sometimes lose their ability to read what is right there on the page. They know that the Mississippi River is a metaphor for life, but don’t know that Huck Finn was a boy.