“All right… I’m glad it’s a girl. I hope she’ll be a fool–that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool… You see, I think everything’s terrible anyhow… And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” (Fitzgerald, Chapter 1)
Daisy Buchanan delivered this quote in chapter one of the Great Gatsby book. She found out that one of her friends were pregnant and it was a girl. She was glad about this because she believes that as long as a girl is a fool, she will live better. If a girl is not a fool, she will get her feelings hurt easily and she will always be in dread and sorrow worrying about everything. But if a girl is a fool, she will be careless and not understand what is going on. That is also how she wishes her daughter to be. Men treat women like toys and unless a girl is a fool, she will always get hurt knowing her husband or man is playing her. Daisy has experienced this with Tom. Daisy knows Tom has a mistress in New York. Tom's mistress rings him all the time and the rumor has spread everywhere. Daisy is very hurt because of this. Tom and Daisy constantly fight and argue because of Tom's affairs which eventually leads Daisy to have an affair with Gatsby. As dumb and annoying as Daisy is, she is still smart enough to figure out what Tom is doing behind her back. Daisy believes that as long as a girl is dumb and a fool and has a pretty face, she will get along well. Other than that, she will always have troubles worrying and such. Daisy has gone through a lot, done it all, and been through it all and hope all girls are beautiful fools because it is the best thing a girl can be.
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