How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Driving Miss Daisy.
Quote #4
DAISY: Find those papers, I told you! It's all right if you moved them. I won't be mad at you. But I've got to get to school. I'II be late. Who will take care of my class? They'll be all alone. Oh, God! I do everything wrong!
Daisy exhibits a sudden episode of confusion and agitation. She remembers Hoke, but she thinks she's a teacher who misplaced her students' papers, and she's panicking. This is our first look at her developing dementia.
Quote #5
HOKE: Now look at you. You rich. You're well for your time. You got folks who care about what happen to you.
DAISY: I'm being trouble. I don't want to be trouble to anybody.
She doesn't snap at him this time for calling her rich, so you know things are bad off. Daisy's still with it enough to know that something is seriously wrong. The thought of being a burden to others is devastating to her. That's another big fear for elderly folks.
Quote #6
DAISY: How are you?
HOKE: I'm doing the best I can.
DAISY: Me, too.
HOKE: Well, that's about all there is to it then.
Hoke and Daisy bond over the issues of getting older. They're both pretty philosophical about it—that's just the way it is, and you make the best of it and don't waste time dwelling on it. This scene's an 11 on the tearjerker scale.