Beautiful Little Fools strips the gauzy romance from The Great Gatsby down to the bare kitchen-sink melodrama of soap opera. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled. Jillian Cantor has successfully flipped this classic right side up for female readers One person found this helpful. But if so, then Nick somehow also made them more witty and dashing. Beautiful Little Fools brings readers a new light on the male characters with an old boys club mentality, entitlements and brazen affairs. Cantor’s version testifies to a truth about gender relations in 1922 to which Nick, and possibly Fitzgerald himself, was oblivious. They are also extremely dull, and indistinguishable in voice and temperament. The men in Beautiful Little Fools are all selfish brutes and the women are, if not outright saints, remarkably noble, selfless, and long-suffering. The rest of Beautiful Little Fools follows this pattern: Any situation from the original novel in which a female character might be found at fault has been carefully reworked to render her blameless and victimized. HarperPerennial, 16. Cantor’s is by far the weaker of the two efforts. Two recent novels- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo and Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor-retell The Great Gatsby’s story.
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