Daisy is wealthy, spoiled and selfish. She is also cynical and unhappy in her marriage. As a mother, Daisy seems to lack both the skills and desire to be mothering.... preferring to treat her daughter like a plaything, leaving her on the shelf until she wishes to show her off.
"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."
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"Look!" she complained. "I hurt it."
We all looked – the knuckle was black and blue.
"You did it, Tom," she said accusingly. "I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a– "
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