People are far more open-minded then Percy gives them credit for. For example, upon finally visiting Cinderella's Castle, the postcard that I had seen of it for years suddenly became a useless piece of paper. The castle became an experience. Standing below the large structure, my eyes moving along the edges of the castle, its beauty seemed far more extravagant then displayed in any postcard. While Percy feels we are just comparing to preconceived notions, I think standing in front of that castle is where I formed my post-Conceived notion of the experience. My viewings of that day forward take my mind back to my childhood standing in front of the massive structure. I experienced the "it." .
The "it" is Percy's definition for the supposed fulfillment that a person seeks when "seeing." In Percy's example, a sight seeing couple stumbles upon an undiscovered Indian village, and according to Percy, they can truly "see" the village, they have no preconceived notion. "The Couple know at once that this is "it." They are entranced." (Percy 428) While Percy believes that the "it" can only be experienced with the newly discovered, my experience at Cinderella's castle proves that the rediscovered can also be a place for the "it." I think the "it" is that entrancing fulfillment that I was flooded with as I stood mouth gaping, head perched up, in front of Cinderella's castle my first time ever. .
Percy's idea of the Symbolic Complex is not so strange. Writer Annie Dillard has a similar idea, but under a different name. In her book A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Dillard decides that seeing is blurred by the preconceptions formed by not only postcards and magazine ads, but by society and what you are looking at. This preconceived notion is what makes seeing difficult. Dillard divides seeing into two categories, "natural obvious," the way of seeing that is obstructed by preconceptions, and the "artificial obvious," the real way of seeing, the preconceptions are cast aside.