Compare the following quote spoken by Daidy in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with the passage from Madame Bovary we discussed in class. How are Daisy and Emma's sentiments about their children similar and/or different?
"Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born ... 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'" (Fitzgerald, 16-17).
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