Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: awful.....OVERWHELMED by symbolism

I too received the book for my first year writing seminar and I will describe it through the analogy of bread and butter. Consider the bread as the story and the butter as the symbolism and style that enhances the enjoyment and understanding of that story. Bread with some butter is good, the butter makes the bread taste even better. However butter with some bread is repulsive. It's hard to force the combination into your mouth and even harder to digest. The butter overwhelms the taste of the bread and you might as well not have a story at all. All that butter can clog your arteries and kill you as too much symbolism can kill a story and make it hard to read and undesirable to finish.