How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I learned more about farming in the few weeks we lived with the McEvoys than I was ever likely to find out in a lifetime on the tenth floor of an Eighty-Sixth Street apartment building where the closest you ever got to Agricultural Produce was a corned beef sandwich from Zabar's with a half-sour pickle. (1.17.15)
Daisy's finally realizing the ways in which living in England is making her more competent than she ever would have been at home in New York, where everyone is far removed from the origins and labor that go into the products they consume.
Quote #8
I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York. (1.19.20)
It's pretty amusing that Daisy's first instance of a similarity between her new life and her old one is comparing England in wartime to New York on a regular Tuesday. Finally, a skill that will translate back home.
Quote #9
I was glad to know this fact because being from New York City where everyone's born knowing uptown is North but not a whole lot else, I didn't know anything about NNE vs. NE and was glad that someone let us in on that secret. (1.23.10)
Just kidding, Daisy's still pretty incompetent. Who doesn't know what Northeast is? Naturally, this foreshadows the fact that she's going to get pretty lost before she figures out where she's going. Luckily this little secret will hopefully help her out.