Even authors that use symbolism come to deny it. They get tired of people making tight allegorical claims. I looked up Piggy's glasses and got more than a half-dozen explanations - admittedly related. The first three explanations of what Robert Frost's "The Rabbit hunter" means were quite different, but all three were asserted confidently. Tolkien said he hated allegory even though he wrote one ("Leaf by Niggle"), because of the brainless symbols people kept finding. Beorn symbolizes the adaptability of man, his greatest strength. I suppose that's not false. The short Father and Daughter that I just linked to has a first comment that tells us that the bicycle wheels represent the circle of life.
Hemingway said in a letter "The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit." He did allow that people could find meanings in his work, though he seemed to be a bit grudging about it. As he should. Writers evoke.
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C. S. Lewis once said (something like), "It passes the wit of mortal man to say something that the wit of some other mortal man cannot find a second meaning in."
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