Loves Outlets. (Mae)

From reading Tyson's Psychoanalytic report on The Great Gatsby, she highlights “fear of intimacy” as a theme for the book. I think that she exaggerates it at some points, taking one-word lines that could be interrupted as a “fear of intimacy” moment and then gives them a deeper meaning. Sometimes Tyson seems right, for instance when she is talking about “neither of them spend[ing] time with Pammy” (pg 43), she concludes, “They don’t stay in one place for any length of time.” After Tyson goes to say that it is because of their “fear of intimacy” that they don’t want to spend time with their daughter. I think that it’s not their fear that drives them in separate directions, but rather a lack of interest. Both of them seem to have outlets; Tom has his mistresses(pg26, 77), and Daisy has the idea of a stable husband(pg 76).