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Motifs: recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and I for the text's major themes.
Example: The weather throughout the book- It ultimately matches the tone in which the chapter was written, or whether or not the
situation described has a certain feeling that can be described with the weather.
Important Quotation: "I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing a girl can be in their worlds, a
beautiful little fool." Chapter 1, Daisy to Nick and Jordan, page 17
Explained: Daisy is expecting a child and finds out in chapter one that the infant was a girl. She was
describing to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her daughter, which reveals some of the morals Daisy
supports and gives us a glimpse of Daisy's character. Though Daisy never claims to be a fool
herself, but she has been made a byproduct of the social environment she grew up in that does not
value women's education by any means. The older generations valued the very specific gender
roles of women, and did not want them to step out of the norm. By Daisy making this remark, she
reveals the social values of the era and does not seem to challenge them in any way. She implies in
a sense that girls can have more fun in their lifetime if they are essentially dumb, beautiful, and
simplistic. Daisy also seems to conform to the social standard of the American woman in the 1920s.