Great Gatsby Essay

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“I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool (118).” Daisy speaks about her newborn daughter in this quote said in chapter one when she is talking to Jordan and Nick. Fitzgerald reveals more to the reader about who Daisy is as a person during this time in the novel. Daisy believes that a woman should be intelligent and her intelligence should be valued by all. She does not like the idea that women should be codependent on their husbands for their entire lives. In the roaring twenties, rich women were believed to just be beautiful without any brains. While Daisy did not like this stereotype, she did not do much to try to change the stereotype. Instead she says that a woman can have more fun if she is pretty and dumb, which is the act that Daisy puts on to many. Women were supposed to always be beautiful and well put together at all times. Daisy believes that if her newborn daughter is a fool and marries rich, she will have a better life in terms of being attractive and having a rich suitor. Fitzgerald also brought this idea of marrying rich up in the novel to show how society is shaping the women into thinking what is right and what is wrong. Before the roaring twenties, women wanted to be docile and wanted to completely depend on their husband for everything in their life. The new generation want to have fun and be happy in a pleasurable and carefree way. Gatsby truly understood Daisy and how much intelligence she