Daisy makes this comment to Nick on page 16 of the novel, although the exact quote is: "I'm pretty cynical about everything."
Nick is at dinner at his cousin Daisy's home. He hasn't seen her for several years and now has become aware that her husband, Tom, is having an affair with another woman and that Daisy knows it. She tells him "I've had a very bad time, Nick," which is why she says she...
Daisy makes this comment to Nick on page 16 of the novel, although the exact quote is: "I'm pretty cynical about everything."
Nick is at dinner at his cousin Daisy's home. He hasn't seen her for several years and now has become aware that her husband, Tom, is having an affair with another woman and that Daisy knows it. She tells him "I've had a very bad time, Nick," which is why she says she is cynical.
But Nick is not sure whether or not Daisy is playing him as she states that she is hoping her daughter will end up to be a beautiful fool and then laughing with "sophisticated scorn" about how sophisticated she, Daisy, is. Nick suspects she is speaking insincerely, playing a role, trying to get a rise out of him, or as he more eloquently puts it "as though the whole evening had been a trick to ... exact a contributary emotion from me."
Perhaps, as Nick's description of the evening suggests, Daisy is less unhappy than merely bored.
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