At their core, fiction is false and non-fiction is true. Nowadays, the gap between the two is getting uncomfortably shorter. If you interpret both the same way, you aren’t getting out of it what the author intended you to. Authors use fiction as training wheels for viewing our world, whereas non-fiction is a recounting of actual events not under the guise of a story. This difference in purposes should force the reader to think about and interpret each genre differently, though most don’t use their interpretation tools to see the stories in each genre for what they are. Fiction is a representation of our world, and wants to teach us about it. Non-fiction is not a representation, but a plain and simple illustration. They are different. Fiction and non-fiction should be interpreted in different ways.
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“Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian is a story about a girl named Margot that creates a mental image of a man she only knows via text. When he turns out to be not who she thought he was, Margot learns a lot about herself and the fellow humans that inhabit the earth. The story caused widespread surprise that it was fictional because of its relatability. All humans, male or female, can sympathise with being stuck in a situation you feel like you can’t get out of, being betrayed by someone you care for, or finding out that someone is the exact opposite of what you pictured. Margot is a fictional character, but at the same time, she’s not (1). This relatability and lack of interpreting it correctly is what caused readers to fail. They saw the similarities to their own life and stopped their thinking there. They didn’t pick up on the fictional aspect of it, and therefore didn’t catch what the themes in the story represented in our world. They gave in to easy
“Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian is a story about a girl named Margot that creates a mental image of a man she only knows via text. When he turns out to be not who she thought he was, Margot learns a lot about herself and the fellow humans that inhabit the earth. The story caused widespread surprise that it was fictional because of its relatability. All humans, male or female, can sympathise with being stuck in a situation you feel like you can’t get out of, being betrayed by someone you care for, or finding out that someone is the exact opposite of what you pictured. Margot is a fictional character, but at the same time, she’s not (1). This relatability and lack of interpreting it correctly is what caused readers to fail. They saw the similarities to their own life and stopped their thinking there. They didn’t pick up on the fictional aspect of it, and therefore didn’t catch what the themes in the story represented in our world. They gave in to easy