Chapter 1: "A beautiful little fool" I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. Daisy speaks these words in Chapter 1 as she describes to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her infant daughter.
Daisy meant by hoping her daughter will be a fool is to keep her from getting hurt by pretending to not know what's going on.
She is indifferent even to her own infant daughter, never discussing her and treating her as an afterthought when she is introduced in Chapter 7. In Fitzgerald's conception of America in the 1920s, Daisy represents the amoral values of the aristocratic East Egg set.
Pages 19-20: Nick and Daisy are alone outside. ○ Nick notices that Daisy looks upset, so he tries to cheer her up by asking her about her infant daughter. She tells Nick: “Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.”
Gatsby was surprised by the fact that Daisy has a child as he saw her as a daydream rather than a woman. The main character was deeply in love with a dream girl who barely had flesh. So, she could not possibly be associated with such earthly aspects as childbearing.
He is shocked because it occurs to him that he might be the father. He is surprised because his dreamy ideas about Daisy have never included the fact that she is a mother. His fantasy about his and Daisy's love fades somewhat upon realizing how embedded Daisy is in a life outside of him.
When asked about her daughter, what does Daisy say? She talks a lot and eats a a lot as well. I'm glad its a girl and I hope she'll be a fool. That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Daisy cries because she has never seen such beautiful shirts, and their appearance makes her emotional. The scene solidifies her character and her treatment of Gatsby.
Daisy wishes that her baby girl will be a fool like her so she ends up married and well off with a rich man. She also wants her daughter to be a fool so she is protected. She is taken care by a nurse rather than Daisy herself. Pammy reminds Gatsby of how much time has passed and that Daisy does have another life.
A nurse brings Daisy's daughter, Pammy, to meet Nick and Gatsby. Daisy suggests that the adults should go to town. She discloses her love for Gatsby through her manner, her indiscreet voice , but also tells him he resembles in his coolness a certain advertisement. Gatsby notes that her voice is full of money (p.
Soon after the wedding, Daisy became pregnant, and Tom started to have affairs with other women. Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby has asked to be invited to his house at a time when Daisy is also present.
Daisy boasts of her love for Pammy but doesn't seem to realize (or perhaps she doesn't care) that young Pammy is going to be negatively affected by her parents' careless infidelity. Daisy objectifies Pammy with her shallow and dishonest life, but to be honest, what other choice does Daisy have?
Why does Daisy describe her youth as a "white girlhood"? On a literal level, she always dressed in white and even drove a white car. More important, she remembers her youth as a time of innocence and charming simplicity, in contrast to the tawdry existence she has in the present.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
If you've seen The Great Gatsby, you know that Daisy's daughter Pammy appears onscreen only once, at the very end of the movie.
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. This is probably Gatsby's single most famous quote.
Daisy, who doesn't know Myrtle, is driving the car when it strikes Myrtle down; Daisy doesn't even stop to see what happened, and escapes without consequences. The lower class characters – Gatsby, Myrtle, and George – are thus essentially sacrificed for the moral failings of the upper class characters of Tom and Daisy.
There is only one child among them, Daisy's daughter, and while the child is well looked after by a nurse and affectionately treated by her mother, Daisy's life does not revolve exclusively around her maternal role.
She is narrator Nick Carraway's second cousin, once removed, and the wife of polo player Tom Buchanan, by whom she has a daughter. Before marrying Tom, Daisy had a romantic relationship with Jay Gatsby. Her choice between Gatsby and Tom is one of the novel's central conflicts.
Daisy is a beautiful, well-groomed young woman whose only real outward sign of her illness is being reclusive and unwilling to socialize. However, she suffers from severe obsessive compulsive disorder and a laxative addiction, and is also deeply traumatized from a lifetime of abuse at the hands of her father.
Although Daisy may have loved Gatsby once, she does not love him more than the wealth, status, and freedom that she has with Tom.
Daisy Buchanan, Nick's cousin, Tom's wife, and Gatsby's first love, has a unique lie. She does not tell it directly, but she lies by omitting the truth. She is, in fact, the person who was driving the car that accidentally hit and killed Myrtle Wilson.
Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan, and Tom continuously cheats on her with other women. Daisy is aware of what is happening and she has to sit there and listen to Tom tell people about it.
Pammy Buchanan
Pammy is Daisy and Tom's daughter.
After Jordan goes to bed, Daisy matter-of-factly tells Nick to start a romantic relationship with Jordan. Tom, meanwhile, tells Nick not to believe anything Daisy told him when she took him aside. Tom and Daisy ask Nick about a rumor that he was engaged. Nick denies it.