Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller by Henry James was an interesting story to read. However, personally I didnt really understand the moral behind it. The story focuses on two main characters, Daisy Miller and Winterbourne. Winterbourne is an american but lives in Geneva and studies there as well and he speaks like a German. He seems to come from a very wealthy family and is wealthy himself. Daisy Miller is a very pretty, young lady. She is wealthy as well. The first part of the story the setting takes place in Vevey, Switzerland. Diasy and Winterbourne are introduced by her little brother Randolph. Winterbourne finds her very pretty and admirable. however, as time passes by and they exchange a few words. He realizes she is just a flirt. Daisy is just a simple young minded, adventurous little girl. But she is innocent and Winterbourne realizes that at the end. In my opinion i think the story centralizes on the innocence in Daisy little world.
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I agree with Encarnacion about how Daisy Miller was centralized in the story because Winterborne was just head over heels with her but she was just having fun. It seems like Daisy did not want to fall for anyone. It was interpreted that she was thinking along the lines of having one life to live and she was not going to go through life with precautions. What Encarnacion is saying is that Daisy was just a young girl that was just innocent and wanted to be nice to all men, but Winterbourne and other characters in the story did not see it as being appropiate that she was so open with all the guys even if she had no intentions of sleeping with them.
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