Great Gatsby
"I don't understand, why…I never heard from you again. How can you show up here, now, expecting anything?"
It was one of the rare times Daisy's face masked its natural resplendence, and harbored a look of puzzlement that bordered, at the corners of her tiny mouth, on contempt.
"I got called overseas. You think I wanted to go? My heart, everything I had up to that moment, was with you. They don't ask you when it is time to be shipped out, they simply tell you and do it. Besides," Jay added, looking incredulously at her, "I'm here now. Things can be different."
The shriek of Daisy's cry alarmed Gatsby and Daisy both, the latter of whom rose to her feet to better shatter the forced amicability of the waning afternoon light.
"Forgive my memory, but when did the armed services ever forbid the passage of written correspondence! What executive order was created to prohibit only Jay Gatsby from showing the slightest common courtesy to a woman he claimed he would love forever? There has been no shortage of propaganda disseminated since the Great War; how might that fascinating tidbit have escaped front page news? Besides," she added, perhaps calmed somewhat by his alarm, "I'm married now."
"Think Daisy," Jay stammered, slowly rising to his feet. "There is nothing I...
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