Daisy Miller, notes for the reader
by
Julie
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- Henry James was a realist, faithful to the tenets of Realism
- This is an international novel, about the confrontation of American characters with European culture
- Americans: innocence, utility, spontaneous, action, natural, honest
- Europeans: knowledge and experience, formal/ceremonious, ritual, artificial, evil
- Daisy Miller had a spontaneous and impetuous nature, carried to a logical extreme
- She cannot survive in European society, will have a rapid decline
- She has admirable qualities that are misdirected
- She has no restrictions and loves her freedom
- She lives for human relationships and society, and doesn’t desire knowledge
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