DOUBLE STANDARD
Literature, movies, and TV are full of stalkers, but there’s a double standard: Men like Gatsby and Heathcliff are called devoted, but the women are considered nuts.
Dara Horn is the author of the just-released novel Eternal Life. She is a two-time winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and one of Granta’s Best American Novelists. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.
Literature, movies, and TV are full of stalkers, but there’s a double standard: Men like Gatsby and Heathcliff are called devoted, but the women are considered nuts.