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“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” - Daisy is not a fool herself but is the product of a social environment that, to a great extent, does not value intelligence in women → she conforms to the social standard of American femininity in the 1920s in order to avoid tension
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“Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily” “i’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before” - why is daisy crying? could show that daisy is vacuous + materialistic. Could be that daisy is crying in hindsight, because she realised that gatsby would be able to take care of her → but, i don’t think that daisy really loves gatsby (in the way that gatsby loves daisy) - she likes him because he’s a tool to exact revenge on Tom. the real reason why she cries is because she is made aware of her role in society. She is expected to be materialistic, to embrace wealth + extravagance and to fawn at gatsby’s opulence. This is what makes her cry. She does not like the dumb role she is expected to fulfil, but it is obvious that everyone expects her to fulfil it
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“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” - Daisy is not a fool herself but is the product of a social environment that, to a great extent, does not value intelligence in women → she conforms to the social standard of American femininity in the 1920s in order to avoid tension
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“Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily” “i’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before” - why is daisy crying? could show that daisy is vacuous + materialistic. Could be that daisy is crying in hindsight, because she realised that gatsby would be able to take care of her → but, i don’t think that daisy really loves gatsby (in the way that gatsby loves daisy) - she likes him because he’s a tool to exact revenge on Tom. the real reason why she cries is because she is made aware of her role in society. She is expected to be materialistic, to embrace wealth + extravagance and to fawn at gatsby’s opulence. This is what makes her cry. She does not like the dumb role she is expected to fulfil, but it is obvious that everyone expects her to fulfil it
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