The Fitzgerald flapper is tale-teller, not author. Like a medieval mystic needing a male confessor (his Princeton hero Amory reading St. Teresa of Avila in This Side of Paradise). The masculine modernist process of creation (author/muse), mirrors not only the mystic-confessor relationship but also the doctor-patient relationship in the Freudian talking cure (in all three binaries, she is the raw material, who needs to be shaped and coaxed into a narrative, she spurts forth, she needs to be contained).
