The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is carefully crafted and has allowed many literary historians to criticize and analysis the significance for said poem. One of the literary criticisms that stands out is Donald Howards’ criticism, “Structure and Symmetry ‘Sir Gawain’,” which provides readers with an effective interpretation of the poem. Howard provides his readers with his understanding of the book and his ideas, while also bringing up the potent idea of influential symbols throughout the story of a major piece. In “Structure and Symmetry ‘Sir Gawain’,” Howard discusses the overall effectiveness that parallelism provides to the story. The purpose of his criticism is to “examine the narrative units based upon structural parallels” and
