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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daisy is an awesome name! [b]It is a nickname for Margaret [/b](because daisies are "marguerites" in French.)  It's the nickname for one of the characters in Little Women. [b]It's the name of the rich woman in the Great Gatsby. [/b] It's lovely. [/quote]

Yes, it is a NICKNAME.  That is the point.

Also, I wouldn't bring up its connection to "the rich woman in The Great Gatsby" as if that is a good thing.  Daisy Buchanan in TGG is a shallow ditz who literally murders somebody in her carelessness and then runs away from it/doesn't care.  She's not meant to be a good person.  And Fitzgerald is a master of the smaller brushstrokes in his masterpiece: he chose an inane, childish name for his ditzy, destructive, child-woman character.  Nobody who read and understood the novel decides that this character is a great person they hope their daughter will be like or somebody who is an appropriate namesake.

Daisy is a flimsy, insubstantial little name that is cute as a nickname for a little girl, but absurd for a grown woman.  [/quote]

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