Is It REALY a Cigar

It was astutely noted in "How To Read" that Sigmund Freud once told a patient that "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." But given what I know both about literature and psychology, everything can have a meaning or a purpose, even if it's not what the author intended. We subconsciously draw lines and parallels to everything we read- the hero's journey, the fall from grace, a setting or character from another story, so even if the author in unaware of the connections, they have still been influenced by The things they have read and heard, drawing parallels just by that influence. Therefore, we, as readers should find those parallels as well. The meaning of what a writer says is not only up to the writer, but also how the reader interprets it. A cigar may be just a cigar to the author, but to the reader, it could have o whole host of meanings.