Full Idea
The positive moral stance of a story can be an artistic defect where it shapes the story in an inappropriate fashion. If it displays disproportionate moral outrage, …it reveals a lack of toleration, compassion, or insight into its subject-matter.
Gist of Idea
It is an artistic defect if excessive moral outrage distorts the story, and narrows our sympathies
Source
Stephen Davies (The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed) [2016], 8.7)
Book Reference
Davies,Stephen: 'The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed)' [Wiley Blackwell 2016], p.218
A Reaction
There could be narrative irony in a story told by an angry and puritanical person, which continually condemns wickedness, with the reader expected to have a more tolerant attitude. Hard to think of any examples of this problem.