Talk:The Little Girl

People From the City

Granted, glurge stories like this are usually -- as this one is -- as subtle and nuanced as a baseball bat to the back of the head. Nevertheless, there's always plenty of room to inject yourself into your interpretation of the song. For example, you said "we know that government agents 'took the girl away...'" No, we don't. "And some people from the city" might be "government agents" or not. Yes, in 20th century America that's a reasonable guess. That it is 20th century America is also a guess. The whole section is original research.

There's plenty more: dad "used a gun on her mom", which we decided inevitably means mom is dead; mom "did drugs", so she is obviously using addictive drugs and is a "drug-addict"; any room with "their couch" must be the "living room" (true story: my grandmother's couch and TV were in the spare bedroom, the "rec room" had chairs and there was no "living room"); and so on.

Wikipedia policy generally excludes this kind of section, because it is not verifiable, violating one of the projects pillars. - SummerPhD^v2.0 12:30, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

The entire section seems to have been based on one person's reading of the song's meaning. The "summary" was about as long as the song's lyrics, though re-written as prose, filling in best-guesses along the way. From the first line, for example, we have an "unnamed" girl. Unmentioned are the facts that no one else is named either, not even the man on the cross. - SummerPhD^v2.0 16:30, 21 November 2019 (UTC)