More's the pity...
Yeah, but Martha Stewart used to run with the BC/Tom-and-Daisy/Hampton crowd and was cynically unsurprised at how few lifted a finger to help her.
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"I tried to think about Gatsby (Martha) then for a moment, but he (she) was already too far away, and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy (Hillary) hadn't sent a message or a flower.
"Dimly I heard someone murmur,"Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,"; and then the owl-eyed man said "Amen to that," in a brave voice.
"We straggled down quickly through the rain to the cars. Owl-eyes spoke to me by the gate.
"'I couldn't get to the house'," he remarked.
"'Neither could anybody else'."
"'Go on!'" He started. "'Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds'." He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in.
"'The poor son-of-a-bitch'," he said.
"...the taxi drivers in the village never took a fare past the entrance gate without stopping for a minute and pointing inside...
"...those gleaming, dazzling parties...were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant... cars going up and down his drive.
"One night I did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. But I didn't investigate. Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over...."
The Great Gatsby,- F.S. Fitzgerald
how do we interpret this? since Hilary did something that martha got busted for, martha got screwed?
He says martha is good for bringing nice things to people at a lower price point, then he says that its class envy because no affluent folks were on the jury?
whatever