"'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'" (Fitzgerald 17).
Daisy hopes for her child to be a fool with an implication that she herself is a fool. She believes that girls cannot attain any higher title. She knows that her husband has a mistress, and she blames herself for allowing that to happen. Daisy blames herself because she suspects she was not keeping Tom happy enough to remain faithful. Daisy wishes for her daughter to be a fool because she is aware of the worse things that her daughter could become. She does not want her daughter to end up like her.
Katie--I wonder if Daisy wants her daughter to be a fool because she feels that she (Daisy) knows too much...and knowing too much leads to the kind of unhappiness she's feeling. In any case, a nice passage to focus on...though a rather dismal one, no?
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