I& #39;d like to blame English courses for drilling it into teenager& #39;s heads that every piece of literature was written with a target audience and has some kind of moral message behind it that they are now applying it to every work of fiction they consume.
So now, they& #39;re all searching for meanings or "what& #39;s the author trying to convey in their work of fiction" that they forget that writers don& #39;t HAVE to include any type of lesson into the works they create. OR inject their views/personalities/values into any of their characters.