Women always have a certain standard, something that they must uphold to remain who they are.
Fitzgerald introduces us to Daisy as detached and spoiled in the first chapter with a flippant tone. She is used to living in such luxuries on the way she behaves herself, like the world revolves around her. Daisy at one point asks Nick “Do they miss me?”(Fitzgerald, 9), not even asking about the actual well-being of the people where she had previously lived. Her self-absorption in what she says is different than the tone describing Daisy as someone asking “helplessly” about “What do people do?”(Fitzgerald, 10), referring to herself as not a person. This chapter reflects the distance she has from the world around her and how money consumes her by Fitzgerald's tone about her.
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When she talks about the birth of her child she says “I'm glad it's 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.” (Fitzgerald, 17), which Nick kind of dismisses by talking about “her lovely Face”. Daisy knows what she’s talking about, but Nick as an author can’t understand it due to the fact that he’s not a woman himself. Daisy is not foolish, by saying this quote she’s stating that by being a fool you can ignore the bad in the world. As a foolish girl she can ignore the fact that the world is cruel to women, which Nick as a narrator is unreliable to understand. He doesn’t know that if Daisy left Tom that she wouldn’t have rights to anything, she’s forced by society to stay with Tom in order to keep any money or her