“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.”
Here the author attempts to show his readers that women’s intelligence is not significant in society. First of all, no mother in today’s society would want her child to be considered a “fool”, back in the 1920’s women didn’t have many rights and they had to do anything under the husband’s circumstances. This is why many women today enjoy being independent, instead of having to rely on a male figure for everything. Daisy is well aware that she is heavily dependent on Tom, and because she is a woman she is unable to change her situation. She knows that as long as her daughter is beautiful, she will marry and live a good life.
“This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
Many people find that keeping yourself open-minded is the best but not in this case. We tend to take a roundabout way to get to our destination but the here the author try’s to tell the reader that looking through one window and having one goal will make you more successful, and your life easier. It doesn’t mean that one window is better than the other, it just means that not choosing one will get you nowhere in life. The idea of looking through a single window is one of morality and uncomplicatedness. Your actions and thoughts would go to whomever they are needed to go, and wouldn’t get mistranslated. (words:110)
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.”
Myrtle is referring to her husband George B. Wilson in this quote. She wanted to raise a family with someone more wealthy in hope of become someone more important to society, this is why she married Wilson. After years of marriage she realizes that he is just a scum bag. Dogs lick shoes when their masters come to them and they get excited. She is pretty much saying that he was more worthless than she could have ever imagined. This proves that not all rich people in society are as amazing as people think. Like Myrtle, though she wanted to be on top of society more than anything, some people would rather just be poor instead of marrying a jerk. (words:120)
"Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope."
Here the author attempts to persuade his readers to only see the good in people, and when we see the bad to have hope in them and just pretend that it never happened. The author uses the phrase “a matter of infinite hope” which if you think about it is basically saying that the only way the reader can see the character is if everything negative action is not pointed toward the character, but the opposite, sympathy. Therefore it is clear that the author believes the readers should open their minds to the innocent people accomplishing bad deeds and give up on them ever becoming what they had hoped for. (words:110)
“…a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
Here Nick presents how he feels about society and how they perceive people. Nick’s tries to act like his father so he won’t judge people, because anyone ordinary person below their high class would be hard for him to understand or relate to. Here, Nick resembles his father which leads the reader to believe that they are superior to others in society. They say that people are born with their sublime thoughts. Nick means that each person in the world is born with their decencies and not everyone can have them. Proving that all people will follow what their family teaches them, and will be like that for the rest of their lives. For example the people of West Egg, are not used to being rich and keen to having such poise, which is the opposite for Nick. This leads the reader to believe that Nick feels like he should live in the East Egg near the people with more class and poise. (words:163)
