"It'll show you how I've gotten to feel about – things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, '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.' "(1.118)
In this excerpt of The Great Gatsby by Scott Fritzgerald we can see that Daisy is dissapointed about having a girl. In a feminist approach, why would you say that she is dissapointed and why does she hope she will become only a "beautiful little fool"?
The excerpt is a good choice for the purposes of your question, but it would have been better not to use the same examples provided by Tyson!
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