unspeakablehorror | My Weird Fictional Hangup (Reply)

I have kind of a weird hangup about fiction where I can have a negative reaction to associating characters or events in fiction too closely to particular real life people or events. I tend to prefer to make more generalized associations about behaviors or personalities or repeated historical trends. And I do understand both that this is a common thing to do in meta-analysis and why one might want to draw such specific parallels, but for reasons I don't quite understand, I feel immense discomfort doing that myself. So if anyone wonders why I tend to avoid making specific comparisons like that when I write meta on fiction, that's why. I don't necessarily feel this is something I need to get over any more than I feel that other people need to view fiction in this abstract way. And as long as I can interpret it differently, I have no difficulty reading or watching things with such a specific interpretation, and am well aware that I do so regularly. I just a.) don't interpret them in that way myself and/or b.) avoid thinking about the specific real-life interpretation when I'm actually reading/watching the work in question.