Sam, you observe continuities between Gen. 1 and 2, even though they also seem to show evidence of being two different stories glued together. In Gen. 1 Elohim does a lot of creation through a procedure of separating and naming: light from darkness, heavens from earth from seas, etc. In Gen. 2 Yahweh assigns this naming task to the man. It would seem, then, that conceptual-linguistic categorization of natural phenomena is a creative capability that man shares with God. Certainly no other animal in our world has this capacity — not even serpents.

You also observe that in Gen. 3 Yahweh is presented on a very human scale: he’s assigns people to cultivate his land, he walks around in the Garden, he has to look for Adam and Eve, he seems not to know what they’ve done. Gen. 2 describes the Garden as a real physical place in the real Middle East, with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowing through it (Gen. 2:14). Reading this story literally, one wonders when and why God became a non-corporeal being.

"while in the original state she was Adam’s completion and Adam had
longed for her, now the Woman is to be the one doing the longing!"

Gen. 3:16 reads like this: In pain you will bring forth children, yet your desire will be for your husband. It’s paradox that women have sexual desire even though severe pain is a predictable outcome. One might argue that if it wasn’t for sexual desire women would have very little motivation to be fruitful and multiply. For men it’s a very different story…