The book traces the journey from innocent rebellious adolescence to confusing, contradicting, anxious often mysterious adulthood with imagination at the centre. The symbolisms like comforting hat a motif through out the book is quite interesting. No matter where you are in like its a great book to read.

Through out philosophical history there is this competition between Greek tradition of rationality and the Judeo-Christian tradition of faith. Kierkegaard is one such intellectual who unequivocally took one stand point i.e submitting to Judeo-Christian morality.