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“we dont know each other very well, nick,” she said suddenly. “even if we are cousins. you didnt come to my wedding.”
“i wasnt back from the war.”
“thats true.” she hesitated. “well, ive had a very bad time, nick, and im pretty cynical about everything.”
evidently she had reason to be. i waited but she didnt say any more, and after a moment i returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter.
“i suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.”
“oh, yes.” she looked at me absently. “listen, nick; let me tell you what i said when she was born. would you like to hear?”
“very much.”
“itll show you how ive 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, im glad its a girl. and i hope shell be a fool—thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
“you see i think everythings terrible anyhow,” she went on in a convinced way. “everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. and i know. ive been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like toms, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. “sophisticated—god, im sophisticated!”
the instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, i felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. it made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributory emotion from me. i waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and tom belonged.
adapted from f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby
based on the passage, what is most likely true about daisys attitude toward her marriage?
Daisy mentions having a bad time and being cynical. When her daughter was born, her husband Tom was absent. Her words and tone suggest dissatisfaction and disillusionment with her marriage. She implies that the world is a terrible place and her marriage is part of that bleak reality.
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She is disillusioned and dissatisfied with her marriage.