In fact, I’ve been writing novels from the point of view of women in history for ten years. My stories are almost always told from the perspectives of women. I love to consider the way the narrator of any story shapes that particular story. But most of all, I was fascinated by the point of view Fitzgerald chose to narrate the story-Nick, the outsider.Īs a writer myself, I’m always most interested in the idea of point of view. I admired not only Fitzgerald’s gorgeous prose but also the way the story unfolds as such a vivid slice of the Roaring 20s-the affairs and murders and the parties and the recklessness. It was one of the first classics I was assigned to read that I truly enjoyed and that I found myself coming back to again and again in the years that followed. I loved it the first time I read it in high school. I would highly recommend this book to any woman who has ever enjoyed The Great Gatsby, especially those who, at some point, found themselves disillusioned by it.The Great Gatsby has long been one of my favorite novels. I went into this book not knowing exactly what to expect, and I’m happy to say it has exceeded what vague expectations I did have. It is also a labor of love, not only for the original, but for the women who never had a chance to tell their own stories, too. It is still, at times, a painful book to read––the early twentieth century was not kind to women of any sort––but it is also a beautiful one. Luckily, Cantor has crafted a novel that places the women at the center of the story. In works lauded as great art, it can be exhausting to see women always the less interesting, the less human, the lesser. Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson are all one-dimensional creatures in their original setting, which serves the novel but can often leave female readers feeling cold and distant. Scott Fitzgerald could not: gives life to the women of The Great Gatsby. In Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor does what F.
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