The City Country Contrast

The city country contrast may be usefully symbolic of one of the issues at the heart of this particular dialogue. I'm wondering if what it's symbolic though is the actual reading that occurs under the tree, right? Well, if a Phaedrus doesn't initially say, oh, I have a look at, here's the written speech. Let's read it. And then they go to that particular tree to read it. So ultimately, I might agree with you in this, but my first impression was that what the country represents here is the written word and the unfetigating approach - as opposed by fatiguing dialectic of city streets. But I can be persuaded in the opposite.