Editing Indecent Proposal (section)

===Differences between novel and film===
Engelhard's novel contained cultural friction that the screenwriter left out of the movie: the main character, named Joshua, is Jewish, and his billionaire foil is [[Arab]].<ref name="Brett">{{cite news |last1=Brett |first1=Anthony |date=4 November 2021 |title=Misogynistic nightmare or sexy escapism? The uncomfortable legacy of Indecent Proposal |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/misogynistic-nightmare-sexy-escapism-uncomfortable-legacy-indecent/ |url-status=live |access-date=15 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104081838/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/misogynistic-nightmare-sexy-escapism-uncomfortable-legacy-indecent/ |archive-date=2021-11-04}}</ref> In a review of the novel, ''[[The New York Times]]'' summarized its themes as "the sanctity of marriage versus the love of money, the [[Jew]] versus significant non-Jews such as [[shiksa]]s and [[Sheikh|sheik]]s, skill versus luck, materialism versus spirituality, [[Israel]] versus the [[Arab]] countries, the past versus the future, and the religious world versus the secular one."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0967407419/ |title=From the Author |date=September 2001 |publisher=ComteQ |isbn=9780967407418 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628011509/https://www.amazon.com/dp/0967407419 |archive-date=2021-06-28  |via=[[Amazon.com]] |access-date=2010-07-23 |url-status=live}}</ref>