Blythe Quake
B-a-DApril#12 Inspirational Quote#15:Black&White;#28From a Low Angle:Pt.3:Who IS the Prince of Wales?
During the Jazz Age:
As Daisy started towards home to confront the person who claimed to be David, the Prince of Wales, she reflected on how naive she had been when her little girl Pammy was born and Daisy told her cousin Nick that she immediately wished for Pammy to grow up to be "a beautiful little fool," claiming that was the best thing a girl could be.
Foolishness and passivity, Daisy had come to realize, had caused so many mistakes-even
disasters--in her life: her true love Jay Gatsby's murder after he was blamed by George Wilson for killing his wife Myrtle in an automobile accident when in reality, Daisy was the driver; her neglect of Pammy; she even blamed herself for the fact that Pammy was abducted and still had not been found. "It's almost as if," Daisy thought, "I was stupid by self-design to a great degree, and add to that what society told girls what we should be. I almost never took action to change things that I could sense were wrong. But I'm not that Daisy anymore."
Daisy had lived and lost enough to realize that “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”*
As she neared her home, a quotation she had read in school long ago echoed in her mind: "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”***
"I really need to take that thought in, and to see if I can live it. Still, whatever happens, I'm
not going to let myself be content to let others determine my life and try to make me go back to being 'a beautiful fool.' I've paid a high price to gain knowledge--perhaps even
wisdom--and I won't give up my power, which is doing my best to act on what I know is
right."
*Confucius
*** William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well"
B-a-DApril#12 Inspirational Quote#15:Black&White;#28From a Low Angle:Pt.3:Who IS the Prince of Wales?
During the Jazz Age:
As Daisy started towards home to confront the person who claimed to be David, the Prince of Wales, she reflected on how naive she had been when her little girl Pammy was born and Daisy told her cousin Nick that she immediately wished for Pammy to grow up to be "a beautiful little fool," claiming that was the best thing a girl could be.
Foolishness and passivity, Daisy had come to realize, had caused so many mistakes-even
disasters--in her life: her true love Jay Gatsby's murder after he was blamed by George Wilson for killing his wife Myrtle in an automobile accident when in reality, Daisy was the driver; her neglect of Pammy; she even blamed herself for the fact that Pammy was abducted and still had not been found. "It's almost as if," Daisy thought, "I was stupid by self-design to a great degree, and add to that what society told girls what we should be. I almost never took action to change things that I could sense were wrong. But I'm not that Daisy anymore."
Daisy had lived and lost enough to realize that “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”*
As she neared her home, a quotation she had read in school long ago echoed in her mind: "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”***
"I really need to take that thought in, and to see if I can live it. Still, whatever happens, I'm
not going to let myself be content to let others determine my life and try to make me go back to being 'a beautiful fool.' I've paid a high price to gain knowledge--perhaps even
wisdom--and I won't give up my power, which is doing my best to act on what I know is
right."
*Confucius
*** William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well"