Riddles in literature

Thinking about riddles in literature. Douglas E. Cowan says:

"'Solving the riddle' of a film, novel, or short story, however, is an attempt to bring meaning under control, often by restricting its interpretation within the bounds of a particular worldview. … Interpretations such as this, though, often require us to read a text eisegetically, injecting our assumptions into it and rejecting much of what is happening in front of us in favor of an analysis more suited to those presuppositions. These approaches often refuse to take the storyworld for what it is and ask what it means to explore that world: a place where the Elder Gods do exist, and messages from a 3-D picture of Jesus are possible. For metanarrative approaches, elusiveness of meaning is a problem that demands confinement and constraint. ... Riddles reinforce the boundaries of one’s worldview, since the answers — whatever they may be — are already contained within those boundaries, and the gatekeepers of the answer determine the correctness of the response. Because enigmas advance the possibility that there is no fixed meaning, no binding answer to the puzzle, they challenge not only the boundaries of this or that consensus reality but the possibility that consensus reality exists at all."
— Douglas E. Cowan. The Forbidden Body: Sex, Horror, and the Religious Imagination. New York: New York University Press, 2022.

Just so you all know, there's a riddle in my novel, Most Famous Short Film of All Time.