Adaptational Villainy: While Daisy isn't a good person in Fitzgerald's version, she's not malicious, just shallow and selfish.Adaptational Sexuality: Nick is Ambiguously Gay / Ambiguously Bi in the original here he's very much sleeping with Gatsby as well as with Jordan, and the friend the rumors out West were about is a man, not a woman.Here, Myrtle rises as a ghost, and with an assist from Jordan, decides to hunt the Buchanans down. Adaptational Karma: In The Great Gatsby, there are never any consequences for Daisy killing Myrtle Wilson, or Tom getting Gatsby murdered by Myrtle's husband.Adaptational Diversity: Jordan Baker, who is traditionally depicted as a Caucasian woman in the original and other adaptations, is reimagined as an Vietnamese adoptee in this novel.
This novel contains examples of the following tropes: Her life is forever shaken up when she crosses paths with known partygoer Jay Gatsby and naïve Nick Carraway. It is a Historical Fantasy retelling of The Great Gatsby told through the perspective of Jordan Baker as a queer, Asian socialite residing in 1920s New York City. This marks as her first full-length novel debut. The Chosen and the Beautiful is a 2021 novel by Nghi Vo.
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