literary interpretation

I think that if you have an imagination it's almost impossible not to read the world into a story. Isn't that what authors count on? Our ability to relate and transfer fictional ideas to reality?
Race, gender, and class can be focused on in literature because it's focused on in the everyday world.
I usually read fictional stories (I find nonfiction rather depressing) and I have found these three factors all over! In Harry Potter for example, race could be seen as being a muggle-born or pure-blood. In many of Jane Austen's novels, she displays the issues of social standing (class) and that of woman (gender). Those ideas have to stem from somewhere, right? It makes everything come full circle, whether the author intended it or not. Just like our own interpretations... we all make different assumptions based on ourselves and how we perceive the world around us.

I don't chew with my mouth open, but if I did... would I be looked down upon? Does my race or social class protect me from that? When I see someon'es food being brutally chewed, I can't help but wonder ho their mother could have neglected teaching htem manners... I think it's more of manners rather than race. And our actions do change around people of different social standing.