Myrtle’s sister, Catherine, is a tiny but important character in The Great Gatsby. Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor finally provides her with the voice she lacked one that makes her an observer and a rememberer before she says anything at all. Catherine, as a working class woman, is above luxury in both East and West Egg. And yet, in remaining distant, she can be quite clear eyed. She does not see as men do when blinded by luxury and love. Instead, she is a woman figure of witness one who tells more than she understands, whose silence is so effective. In this reinterpretation, Catherine’s role is more than mourning. She is a kind of investigator, attempting to untangle the truth of Gatsby’s murder and the thousands of lies that have been told about it. Along the way, she is the voice of the disenfranchised the people outside the elite of society but still deeply affected by its decisions. Catherine reminds us that not all women of the 1920s were debutantes or flappers. There were many like her, who were trying to create a life for themselves in a world made by men’s decisions and women’s sacrifices. Her appearance is a justice, one which does not yearn for glamour, but yearns for authenticity. Cantor uses Catherine to bemoan the construction of stories who gets to tell them, and whose version is history. Beautiful Little Fools retrieves not only a character, but a lost attitude through Catherine.