Thursday, February 4, 2010
A Flower?
Daisy Miller? Was she really just a big flirt and in dire need of attention? I most deffinatley do. For a woman of this time period to be out galavanting with men, she has to have some alternative desire. She may not have been in pursit of sex, but the idea of making a guy think that may happen later on, seemed like the game she wants to play. Daisy was so caught up in attention and doing what she had to to get it that it ultimately cost her, her life. We can apply this to our lives. We must think about what we are doing and the consequeces to follow. If you cheat on the test, the consequence could be, you get in trouble, or you might not, but you could possibly need to know that answer later on in life in a weird crazy interview for a job. I mean, life is too great to make it a game and to play with your life. Daisy was in oursuit of something that wasn't good by any means. Thus is why she dies.
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I totally agree with every thing that Vick has said. Daisy in away deserved everything that she got because she lived her life very carelessly and it was actually her own fault that she had died. On the other hand if a person wants to be a flirt there is nothing wrong with that, it is just that Daisy took it way out of hand. Vick is also right about applying this story to our own lives. All we have to do is just pay attention to everything that we do in our lives. An even though we may want things in life, we can not do anything and everything to get it because something may go wrong.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Mr. Vick. Everything we do everyday in our life has a consequence. For example if I miss a class my action will trigger a set of events. The teacher calls roll and notices that at least one student is missing. The teacher reports this to the office of the dean. The dean reports this to Lt. Commander Starr who then puts you on the penalty hour list for having an unexcused absence. At LRC Lt. Commander Starr will then call out the names of those people who have penalty hours. Then another consequence will be that I will have to march off the penalty hours and I will have to stay on campus during the weekend if I have not marched off the hours by then. So it is always good to think ahead of time so you can prepare yourself for what will come your way in the days to come.
ReplyDeleteBoth posts hit on one thing that made the person Daisy Miller and the demise of her, the idea that she did what she wanted to do. It's apparent with everything she did. She was unrestrained by anyone. Mrs. Walker and even her mother couldn't stop her. Giovanelli couldn't even restrain her. The thing that astonished me about him was at her funeral he said to Winterbourne, "If she had lived I should have got nothing." It says she wanted to live the way she did until her death. Her untimely death is explained well by Mr. Vick as such that she died the way she lived. She did what she wanted and died as a result.
ReplyDeleteVick is certainly right daisy miller was a tremendous flirt including a bit promiscuous and cunning in a lot of areas. She lived her life in dishonesty and conniving wit was the her main effort or the total of her dealings which is stated by my fellow classmates. Her death though tragic and unexpected was a direct result of her own actions to live life so foolishly. As a solid truth we can apply those mistakes and issues that she had because even though it is just a story yet and still it holds much truth.
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