Assume Gatsby’s murder made it to court. Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor brings this very prospect into being by making his murder a crime to be solved instead of a foregone conclusion. George Wilson is named murderer and assassin by Fitzgerald in the novel. But Cantor has alternative suspects, motives, and secrets. On a reconstruction in court, all three women would be testifying as witnesses. Daisy, whose history is closely tied to Gatsby. Jordan, the objective observer with knowledge. Catherine, Myrtle’s sister and keeper of secrets no one really wanted to hear. The story would be torn apart at cross-examination. Cantor’s surprise refers to how legal constructs like literary canons have a tendency to favor assuming the simplest explanation is most probably true, especially if it allows those in power to escape. Her story leaves room for complication, showing the ways in which each woman’s life was put aside in the interests of maintaining male mythologies. A production in a modern courtroom would make starkly clear not only who murdered Gatsby, but also how society creates room for the telling of certain stories and not others. In doing so, Cantor both writes and is the attorney to re-stage the case, speaking for the women whose lives Gatsby coexists with.