To start, I agreed with Tyson's psychoanalysis of the Gatsby characters. Many of which, I had noticed before reading the essay.
I always though that Daisy was doing everything very specifically, even though she is considered fairly ditsy and shallow as a character. I do have to say though, I think Gatsby's "fear of intimacy" is a bit of a stretch. Not that i think he has oedipal or " petit objet a" syndromes, but Tyson's description of his fear was a bit weak.
I can't say this analysis changed the book for me too much, but it did tell me the definition for what i was noticing between the characters.
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