Key Quotes

Question 1

‘I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

Answer 1

• exposes character of Daisy
• she is product of social environment that doesn’t value intelligence in women
• older generation values subservience and docility in females and younger generation values thoughtless giddiness and pleasure-seeking
• sardonic remark, she refers to the social values yet doesn’t challenge them
• describes her own boredom with life, implies girls have more fun being simplistic and beautiful
• she often tries to act a part conforming to social standard of American femininity in the 1920s to avoid tension filled issues eg underlying love for Gatsby