"I'm sure the author had something in mind when writing a book, and we should probably try to consider that first, but the author can't help but put their subconscious into it, and everyone is going to react to things differently, so... Well, objectively there IS a text, if you're talking about words on the page, but what they mean is really anyone's guess. You could probably have a lot of fun, too, trying to read into a work subtext that the author didn't actually add to it."