I think at some point you have to accept that different people are going to take away different things from the same novel.

Quite funny given that the people in question here tend to be directly opposed to postmodernist views like this one.

Sure. And while some of those are genuine different views others show lack of understanding or that the person in question forgot most of the content. It is in fact ppssible to genuinely not understand or genuinely forget things.

Or, at worst, that they are genuine psychopath looking forward harm they will cause.