Trying something called rambling about my dnd characters here like I would on twitter
I'm finishing up rereading the Great Gatsby for an annotated version for a friend. And - let's face it- most of it is me lamenting over my OC Petrichor who is basically just if Gatsby were a better simp and actually more of a murderer about it.
Petrichor KNEW F. Scott Fitzgerald. He approached him a couple times and eventually it did end with bloodying the fucker up.
And yeah- It was mostly the disrespect toward women that did it, but the fact that Petrichor felt both called out and misrepresented in "The Great Gatsby" surely had some hand in it too.
And January 2021 Petrichor learns the Great Gatsby is in the public domain, and in one last FUCK YOU to Francis, Petrichor decides to do a little indulgent rewrite for therapy's sake.
But yeah, Men being super shitty to women on principle and it causing all the problems in the Great Gatsby,
I can see it being in Petrichor's remake it's extremely women's rights to the point that any man is just so grateful for even the worst treatment. Women shouldnt have to be subservient perfect little wives to be cherished and cared for. They shouldnt be trapped and toyed with, and made to suffer for men's follies and obsessions.
Marital and romantic belonging as well as secrecy are absolutely something that haunts Petrichor so he'd not do completely away with the concept - but I do think there's going to be more to it than, a woman can't love two men, the two men would never allow it.
To top it all off, I do think Petrichor is going to lean into the Eyes of Dr T J Eckleberg being more of an eldritch presence upon the world. Because fixations but also the belief that an old god might be hovering in interest over human trauma and suffering is just tantalizing on its own.