Literary meaning in fiction, for me, can be anything in a text that moves the reader. Similar to Barthes' punctum idea, that a small detail can elicit an intense and sudden emotional response; a small change in the narrative could alter when a response is triggered, causing the reader to leave the text with a different understanding of the text and its meaning than previously read. The meaning can be different depending on the time it is read, who reads it, or even where it is read. Whether it's the first time readers read the narrative, the twentieth time, or the author returning to revisit and edit before finishing the work; each reader, when reading a narrative, brings their own opinions and understandings to the text. Therefore texts develop intertextuality and can have a new and different meaning for each reader. Intertextuality means that the meaning assumed by a text also changes when it is brought into contact with other texts that the reader has read previously and will eventually encounter. This also causes the meaning of the text to constantly change as new texts are encountered. Along with intertextuality, hypertextuality can influence how meaning is found in a text. Hypertextuality refers to any relationship that links a text to a previous edition of that text. Because of this intertextuality and hypertextuality, even when an author or creator has finished the work to the best of their ability, the work will never be “complete” as each new reader will bring a new point of view and ideas about what the meaning of the text really