"I'm Glad it's a Girl"

“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” (20, Fitzgerald).

The audience was introduced to this quote towards the beginning of the novel. Daisy and Nick met for the first time in the novel, and they were discussing about Daisy’s daughter, Pam or Pammy. It was also during this time when Tom had to leave his guests and take a “work call”, which turned out to be Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Daisy and Jordan knew about this, and eventually Nick found out too. Daisy is angry at herself, sad for ending up this way. She cannot believe that she made the mistake of marrying someone like Tom, whom she does not love. Although living a luxurious life, she is home all day long, full of boredom and loneliness. Daisy expresses to Nick about the gender of her child, saying that she is happy it is a girl. Eventually she will turn out to be a fool, because that is what every girl turns out to be. Daisy has formed this opinion due to social values of the current time they are living in (1920s), plus through the life she lived with. Daisy is sure that her offspring will turn out to be someone like her, a woman of this era, living with boredom and no action. Although she states what the current generation’s mistakes are, she does not propose ways to change them, yet follows what others do.