Inside double quotes, the only special characters are dollar sign, the backticks, and the backslash.
The glob expansion is done at a different phase of the command parsing.
It wouldn't make sense to expand it inside quotes, because one purpose of the quotes is to prevent spaces from splitting up the parameter. Since the expansion will almost always have spaces, an expansion within quotes would mean a list would get treated as a single parameter, whether or not the spaces were in a filename or separating two filenames.
For example, suppose you had a directory with two files 'pic a.jpg' and 'pic b.jpg'. If the glob was expanded inside the quotes (which it isn't), then
would become
Code:
"pic a.jpg pic b.jpg"
which would not be a useful string, whether treated as a single filename or multiple ones (the spaces in the string do not all have the same meaning).