Importance Of Advice To Nick

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The advice given to Nick by his father was that Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven 't had the advantages that you 've had". This advice was very useful for Nick because even if his father could not straight up tell him the meaning of this. Nick was still able to understand what his father meant this teaching. To me it means that before looking at other make sure to look at their circumstances. The reason that teaching is very important is because whenever someone judges someone, they forgot that they could be that person and if they would not like someone to judge them, than they should do the same with someone else. In addition this piece of advice is important for Nick as he is …show more content…
She 's not able to fix it but she 's also not able to communicate well with him and this is illustrated through her conversation with Nick. During her conversation with Nick she mentions how unhappy happy she was when her daughter was born because although she was happy that it 's a daughter she was only happy because she wanted her to become a fool so that she 's not left like a mother who is just a woman who 's going through marriage betrayal. She cried throughout the conversation which showed that she knows why Tom wanted to move to East Egg and is still not able to do anything about it. At first when Mrs. Baker talks about his affair with a woman and how she calls him during dinner time, both Nick and her try to listen to the conversation and Daisy knew about it. This shows that she is not ashamed of people knowing that her husband is having an affair, but also because it will show her as the poor woman who can 't say anything about her husband 's affair. Although Daisy is trying a lot harder to show that she does not care about what 's currently happening and she doesn 't know anything, her being nervous when the phone call came shows that she does care and is affected by this. Also with her first reaction to when her daughter was born shows that she was not happy with her marriage life. In the end I just think that the only reason they are still together is because of their daughter, as both of them love their daughter so much they might be staying together because of her, which was normal back during that time period for parents to be together just for their

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