When Daisy found out she was having a daughter, she responded by saying “I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I
’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” What insight does this tell the reader about her perspective on gender roles?
She hopes her daughter is a "fool" because she doesn't want her daughter to know that she deserves better than what the world will give to her. Men are seen above women so the best thing a woman can be is beautiful because her husband will treat her better than if she were viewed as ugly. Being beautiful would also help her to get a husband in a better wealth class. Daisy knows how cruel the world can be towards women
Older animals are usually surly and ill-tempered.- That can be a sentence in itself as well as the second part. Accordingly it is unwise to attempt to pet a grown raccoon. All the semicolon is doing is combining two sentences to make them one.
