During the first chapter of Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway moves to Long Island, in front of his cousin Daisy's house.
Daisy invites Nick over to have dinner with her, her husband and her friend Miss Baker.
After dinner, Daisy and Nick are out on the patio while her husband Tom and Miss Baker are inside the house. When they are alone, Daisy and her cousin have a conversation from which the reader can sense her intense unhappiness. She is gloomy and depressed, tired of life. Not even her daughter's birth had brought her joy, because the only think she could think was how cruel the world is and how lucky she would be if she could just be "a fool" and ignore it. She is melancholy and pessimistic about life and the future.