" (p.15) but his father cannot stop criticizing his son, even the way Tommy eats and looks at the breakfast table. Just like the camera was critical of Tommy, so is the unsparing gaze of his father. His father continues to call him by his old name, Wilky, which Tommy has rejected. Tommy, once attractive enough to solicit the attention of a Hollywood scout, has become overweight and lethargic, and has trouble breathing because of the great, oppressive weight of the past that is now pressing down upon him. Rather than being reborn anew, Tommy is drowning in the sea of misery he has created for himself.
Erasing his father by changing his name, fleeing back to his father -- nothing works. Tommy says that he fears he will spend "second half" of "life recovering from the mistakes of the first half," but really this attempt to start anew is a familiar one, as he again tries to merely change external aspects of his self. (p. 100) Money, power, fame, if Tommy can just secure one of these things, or preferably all of these things, he is convinced that he will be reborn as his true self and triumph over his father's control and will. But by making societal and fatherly approval the nexus of his life, Tommy is just treading water, effectively standing still, emotionally.
For his entire existence, Tommy says, he has felt like an outsider, "everyone seems to know something" except him, he remarks, a feeling that still plagues him as he engages in fruitless speculation in the commodities market, again seeking to make money quickly and easily. (p. 78) at first, he rejects the assertion that his true sense of self is "inescapable," and believes that money, motion, and name changing will free him from who he is, so long as he can prove his worth in the seemingly infinitely fluid social space that is America. After being rejected in California, he decides that "people were feeble...
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