Riffing on several generations of both popular and literary critique of The Great Gatsby as the great American novel, Variations explores Nick Carraway’s status as an “unreliable narrator” through a revisionist lens, asking: What if Gatsby and Nick were more than acquaintances during World War I? What if Jordan Baker had been in love with Daisy since they were children? And what if both of these hypotheticals coalesced to ensure that Gatsby did not, in fact, wind up dead in his swimming pool? Through these central complicating questions, Variations aims to provoke thought about the often cis-favoring, heteronormative educational environment in which characters like these in novels like Gatsby are simply taken to be straight at face value.