In addition to Response Paper

When we had our class this morning we had to exchange our paper with a fellow student to get feed back. I would like to add to my earlier post to clear up any confusion and add new material to support my earlier post.
One of the questions was what role do women fill for Tom?
I believe that because Tom was raised in a family with parents who were still married he held this in a high regard, an achievement. Tom is living a life of mediocrity when it comes to his job and personal achievements. I believe that Tom put all his effort into finding his soul mate because it seemed more attainable then trying to achieve higher than being a greeting card writer.
A confusing section of the paper seemed to be when I was discussing Freud's dream-work concept. I used the definition "dream-work is a tissue of thoughts usually a very complicated one,which has built up during the night to retain the quota of energy-the 'interest'-claimed by it, and threatens to disturb sleep. (Freud 199) I am trying to compare how the film (500) days of Summer uses this concept is threw the many dream sequences used in the film to show Tom's disillusion thoughts about Summer. How these thoughts are affecting his subconscious and how he is not dealing with his wants and has created these dream sequences to express his feelings and what he truly desires.
Also, to support the claim that Woody Allen's Characters are searching for more of a intellectual connection; in his book The Insanity Defense he writes a short story titled The Whore of Mensa. This short story centers on a man who goes to intellectual prostitutes to fulfill the intellectual needs that his wife is not meeting. The man goes to a private investigator for help because the lead intellectual prostitute is black mailing him. It is an extremely clever story and the juxtaposition was very ironic.
In conclusion I also wrote that Tom Hansen came from a family that was still together when in fact his parents are divorced.
I think that exchanging papers was a great idea it's always good to get an honest opinion on your work. Especially from another student who is trying to write about the same subject.