In Chapter One, Daisy shows herself to be childish, snobby, self-centered, and cynical. Despite the fact that Nick was away fighting in the war, she is irritated that he didn't attend her wedding. Further, she describes her first reaction to learning that she'd had a little girl (it was tears), and she says that she hopes her daughter will be a fool because
"the best thing a girl can be in this world [is] a beautiful little fool.'"
Daisy doesn't express any affection let alone love for her daughter with these words; instead, she manages to turn the news of her daughter's birth into one more way to complain about her own lot in life because she feels unhappy and put-upon and used.
The more Daisy complains about the state of the world -- a world which exists to serve her due to her wealth and status -- the more snobby and childish she sounds until, finally, she looks at Nick
"with an absolute smirk on her lovely face, as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she [...] belonged."
Daisy knows how much power she wields, and her confidence is supreme because no one ever disagrees with her.
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