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Flashcards in Daisy Deck (13)
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1
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What does she say when she gives birth?

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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” - Zelda was accounted to have said this

2
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Ceiling

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“frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling” - wants people to view their marriage as perfect and pure

3
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Murmur

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“Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean towards her”

4
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Laugh

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“absurd, charming little laugh”

5
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Face

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“Her face was sad and lovely” - contradictory, hints to elusive nature

6
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Voice

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“There was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget”
“her voice glowing and singing”
“Her voice is full of money”
manipulative

7
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Refers to her child as

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“the baby”

8
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Simile describing appearance

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“flower-like way”

9
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Connotations of Daisy’s name

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  • ‘Daisy’ - flower, beauty, fragility, association with white
  • ‘Fay’ - from the medieval word ‘fairy’. Again, this is associated with delicate beauty and shows Daisy is associated with magic/dreams and therefore is unattainable - “she could not help tumble short of his dreams” - Liks to American Dream
10
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Critic - White

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Darren Morton - the colour white shows Daisy is a ‘blank canvas’ which men project their desires on to.
Ronald Berman agrees and says she is “part idea”

11
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Jordan + Daisy’s dresses

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“dresses rippling and fluttering as if they had been blown back in after a short flight”
“fluttering”/”flight” - connotations of softness, fragility
This image is interrupted by the onomatopoeic “boom” of Tom shutting the windows - juxtaposition of masculine and feminine - early hint of male dominance in novel

12
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What does she compare nick to

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a “rose. An absolute rose” - meaninglessness compliment emphasised further by repetition.
Nick admits its emptiness: “I’m not even faintly like a rose” yet still falls under her spell

13
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“White”

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associations with purity, suggests that she is idealised by men rather than seen as sexual (contrast to Myrtle’s brown muslin dress)
Fitzgerald never says that she and G sleep together - wants to focus on emotional affair