Yes, I know this story is chock full of religious symbolism, and I am not religious, but every time I read it aloud I start crying, it is just so touching. I wonder if anyone else feels the same. I don't feel it is a complex story as such, but I really recommend that others read this story aloud, as with Oscar Wilde's other children's stories.
Farewell my friends.
I love that story as well!! And like you, I'm not in the least a believer. I think that atheists and agnostics can be touched by the fall/redemption structure, or even by religious motifs in themselves - I know I love Bach's music or Mozart's masses, in part because I sense something like mystical aspiration in them.
I just think it's okay.
No offence.
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