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“Those things excite me so. If you want to kiss me any time during the evening Nick, just let me know and I’ll be glad to arrange it for you.” “Look around.” “I’m looking around. I’m having a marvelous–”
This is what Daisy Buchannan says while entering a weekend party at Gatsby’s house. The novel was written in 1925 during official U.S. prohibition of alcohol. I think despite prohibition of alcohol, it was a more relaxed time socially, so Daisy, a married woman, could still be flirtatious with another man like Nick. And of course she has a more serious interest in Gatsby.
Flirtation interests me. I chat a lot with women online now because I am single and lonely. I think there is often an erotic energy between a man and a woman that is usually not acted on in actual physical terms.