Daisy does not like to deal with real issues or with
reality. She prefers to live in an existence of dolls and make believe where she can
create worlds and lives and alter them to her liking in order to avoid the harshness of
the real world. This becomes evident almost as soon as she is introduced into the
novel, but it especially becomes clear when she tells Nick, in the first chapter, what
she said when her daughter was born:
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.
Because of this
attitude, creating a romance between Nick and Jordan is nothing more than a pleasantly
diverting game for Daisy. Tom does not have the same aversion to reality because he
believes he controls his world anyway. A romance between Nick and Jordan is irrelevant
to Tom, other than the fact that he likes both Nick and Jordan and sees them as being
worthy of his company.
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