LisaRandolph

"Ideally, moral/intellectual critism should differ from sermonizing to the degree that readers should always be left with their own decisions about whether to assimilate the ideas of a work and about whether the ideas-and values-are personally or morally acceptable(300)
This points that if we as readers can make a personal connection of the story, poem, play or movie to our own lives. If the author did not use it for any other purpose such as political or spirtual. This also can cause concerns in drawing one's own conclusions for the fact that each of us has different life experiences and drawing our own conclusions about a story could lead to personal critism from others. Robert's is basically saying that if we can connect the story to our personal lives then the author did their part.