Once an English major...

[arduinna]

I'm on a Person of Interest reading binge, and hit a summary that mentioned an OC named Daisy Buchanan, causing me to go very cranky and muttery, because dude, you can't just steal your OC's name from literature and expect people not to notice! Come on!

But I start reading anyway, just because. And it's well-written, so I start to go hmmm, and then I find out that the author isn't stealing names after all, she's specifically referencing The Great Gatsby in multiple ways, and dropping other literary allusions around to boot.

\o/

I hereby publicly retract my private cranky muttering!

*dives happily back in*

Comments

[cereta]

Ooh, yes. It's one think just to steal a name. It's another thing to make a deliberate allusion. Says the person who's been doing a bleep-load of worldbuilding for the last year, and has walked that fine line a LOT ;).