I Hope She’Ll Be A Fool What Does This Quote Mean?

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan’s character is built to love wealth, ease, and materialistic items. She is capable of showcasing affection to others but not loyalty or care. Daisy’s top priority is someone who will increase and protect her status figure. She doesn’t care about how much love a person can bring to her, the only thing that she deeply cares about is how much a person can raise her status and her wealth.
In the first chapter when Daisy reunites with Nick she offers to tell him about the day her baby was born, she says: '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”. Here, Daisy doesn’t even think twice about the fact that her husband is nowhere to be found moments after her baby is born from that alone it is obvious that Daisy is used to the feeling of abandonment and that it isn’t anything new to her. She then continues telling Nick: “She told me it was a girl, 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'. From the way Daisy finishes telling this story to Nick it is clear that the sex of her baby is very important to her. She didn’t want to have a girl, and was even cried out of disappointment after finding out. By saying she hopes her daughter will be a “beautiful little fool” it is a sign that Daisy thinks being a girl means nothing more than looks.
As Daisy lives the ideal dream of the lavishing and glorious lifestyle, she had to go through several hardships that got her to where she is now. When Daisy describes her child, she hopes for the best that her child is a fool so that her daughter can live a life that Daisy dreamed to have, painless and worry-free.