Reading Critically

So when I read the stories the first time they both seemed pretty drab if I may say, but when we went over them in class and the real meaning of the White Heron was brought out it turns out these stories were actually quite intense. I guess thats what happens when you analyze every word and sentence of the reading. I'm going to work on reading things more slowly and trying to figure out what the author is really trying to convey to me, even if I might have to dig deeper to find it. I'm afraid that I'll take something in a completely different way and I'll interpret the whole thing wrong, but I guess then that will just be what the story means to me because I suppose we all have different interpretations of things.