Justine: Love Has Nothing To Do With It

I agree with Lois Tyson's "What's Love Got To Do It." When I was reading Gatsby, I never thought of the characters as suffering from a fear of intimacy. However, like the the first chapter begins, "whether we realize it or not, psychoanalytic concepts have become part of our everyday lives..." I only thought that the characters just cared about themselves, and it didn't matter who they hurt. Tyson's insights such as: "fear of intimacy in the novel lies in Tom Buchanan's chronic marital affairs," (40) and "Gatsby and Myrtle function... as psychological pawns in their relationship with each other." (46) put some of my thoughts into eloquent, understandable phrases.