The video I choose for the gloss of “Don Quixote” is “Don Quixote: 400 Years of Chasing Windmills,” by Dickinson College. This video emphases the importance of Don Quixote in literature. Dickinson College points out that all literature, after Don Quixote, is just a footnote under it because of the vast amount of themes, motifs and symbols, literary works possess similarly to it. I feel that the digital user found the influence that Don Quixote had on literature most appealing. They felt that Don Quixote exemplifies the desire of any ordinary person. The desire for power, love and just to find one’s identity. I found this interesting because I thought Don Quixote was just a parody of chivalry, but the digital user made me see that the character is just like us. Ordinary beings search for their destiny and self in an almost comical way. We fall, get back up stubbornly and then try again. That is what i found must appealing of Don Quixote. I felt that his story, although comical, was approachable and one was able to reflect their own lives on it. His story has many layers which leaves meanings and symbols open ended, but leaves the audience to create their own meanings, whether based on personal experience or just imagination. The ability and the amount of imagination left and imprinted in the mind of the audience makes Don Quixote an excellent read. I can’t wait to read Don Quixote once or maybe twenty times just so I can see where many literary works came from and just to cross reference the themes. All in all, Don Quixote is truly a great work that has left its imprint in society and on many works of art/literature that has came after it (hundreds of years after it). The End.