"For about as long as any one's been writing anything, the seasons have stood for the same set of meanings. Maybe it's hard-wired into us that spring has to do with childhood ans youth, summer with adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion, autumn with decline and middle age and tiredness..."
- In this chapter "...So does Season", Foster draws on the fact that seasons have a large role in writing today. They aren't just being addressed as that certain time of the year, but they are serving as symbols to different emotions, and surprisingly most human beings have around the same set of emotions correlating with the same season. One point that he mentions stuck out strongly to me, he says that this idea of the seasons that most human beings have is so "deeply ingrained in our cultural experiences" that we don't even have to think twice about a symbol involving seasons. From this chapter I gained the idea that, the way we live our lives and our common beliefs on ordinary things, effect how we understand literature immensely. Though of course the opinions and thoughts of some seasons might differ slightly from person to person depending on them, but for the most part we share a common belief on the emotions that correlate with certain seasons.
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