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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: why Melanie did not realize that Ashley only loved her as a
friend. Melanie evidently found nothing lacking in her husband's
messages but Melanie had had no other man's love letters with
which to compare Ashley's."
"He writes such crazy letters," Scarlett thought. "If ever any
husband of mine wrote me such twaddle-twaddle, he'd certainly hear
from me! Why, even Charlie wrote better letters than these."
She flipped back the edges of the letters, looking at the dates,
remembering their contents. In them there were no fine
descriptive pages of bivouacs and charges such as Darcy Meade
wrote his parents or poor Dallas McLure had written his old-maid
Gone With the Wind | 
