there's no way he isn't syn-flow. i've read several of his books (and short stories) and every book would feature a main male character who's sx/sp and the other characters are mostly syn-flow as well (as well as the themes, etc..) the only so/sp character i found was tom buchanan in the great gatsby, who is basically a critique of an so/sp archetype. i don't think someone who is so/sp can come up with that (i read a few novels by an so/sp 4w3 novelist, who could actually be the formal subtype as well, and the writing style was extremely dry and foreign to me, like i didn't understand the underlying dynamics at all, because they were described by someone who looks from the "outside in") there are a lot of literary reviews who emphasise how his books are influenced by his biographical life + experiences (i'm not really sure how much i buy into that), and especially the problem between daisy, gatsby and tom buchanan gets attributed to his relationship with his first love and her controlling father (who sometimes gets associated with tom buchanan). basically all of his books revolve first and foremost around the love life of an idealized sx/sp character (who always loses the girl) and his quest of getting rich (and successful) and the social sphere ist mostly some kind of glamorous backdrop. so, he's most certainly some kind of syn-flow stacking. i personally think he's seducer sx/sp. his lifestyle has been described as 'excessive' btw.
i guess you can actually read the great gatsby as a social critique, but the only social critique in it is that the social firsts (tom and daisy) are selfish, vapid and shallow and are responsible for others people (emotional) suffering.



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