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Daisy Miller, Henry JamesOriginally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to li...
I bought this book because I wanted to get an idea of the style of Henry James. I was not disappointed; everything was perfect. However, I could not find anything transcendent to Daisy Miller; if not rebellious, I would qualify her instead as capricious. The back cover summary is lovely, but we realize that we have known more spicy as a heroine when we immerse ourselves in reading. I had trouble getting attached to this character; once the book closed, I quickly forgot her. However, since this b...
“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”This short novel is an interesting exploration of the nature of freedom of women in face of social conventions built to put them in the box of decency and politeness. The structure of the society in which Daisy Miller lives isn't the one that is interested in her as a complete woman, with her desires and longings, but a statue of an ideal that bows down to the rules of appropriateness. Daisy Miller is a rebel...
Possible spoiler alert so be careful if you might not want to know the full plot. Book Review 4 of 5 stars to Daisy Miller by Henry James, a story about a free and unattached American girl who is spending some time in Europe after being removed from American society for some time. She unwittingly defies the moral code of European society, never realizing it until the very end when she dies. All throughout the story, “Daisy does what she likes, responds to what she likes. To the world
Henry James in a nutshell. This novel contains all typical and topical for him issues, to mention only freshness and spontaneity contra preciosity and social niceties, differences between young and puritan country and fossilized and sophisticated Old World, clash between America and Europe, innocence of the first and corruption of the latter, though in that particular example we have rather America versus America. Daisy Miller, a young American, stays with her mother and younger brother at a hot...
Customs of different countries and people seem of little importance today to many, we are basically the same , underneath... all humans, yet language, religion, history or even weather and geographic features divides us , what is accepted in one place is not in another: Daisy Miller, (real name Annie) is making the required Grand Tour of Europe, for wealthy Americans, those with aspirations to join high society, this novella was written in 1878. A typical American teenager , a girl, friendly, ne...
It is as impossible for me to read anything about the Castle of Chillon and not think of Muriel Spark's The Finishing School as it for me to read about Rome and not recall Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. Although I can see an argument for comparison to one--is it possible to describe Switzerland in any way that doesn't sound charming?--it would be more than a stretch to compare it to the other. To put it simply, Daisy Miller is a delight--until Mr. James punches you in the gut. Cu...
It's so hard, when you are a pretty young lady, to find any old closeted priggish gentlemen to warn you that you're about to die of flirting. "But what," you always find yourself wondering, "Would a middle-aged bachelor from the 1800s do?" Thank heaven, into the void steps Henry James. And y'know when books like this get written - books where women do what they want and are punished for it - there's always this, like, "But you can see that his sympathy lies with the woman" argument, right? Peopl...
How to make this book better: Winterbourne meets Daisy Miller and decides he does not like her. He returns home. THE END.
The major point in this novel is the difference of social behaviour between Europe and AmericaDaisy Miller is a young American woman refused to comply with the strict European laws of manners that govern behaviorJames showed the stereotype judgment of society, and the effect of these unfair judgments on people's livesthe novel was published in 1878
"I'm very fond of society, and I have always had a great deal of it." In no time at all, Winterbourne becomes infatuated with young Daisy Miller, a "pretty American flirt," whom he considers to be "uncultivated," and an "inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence." His aunt disapproves, considering the girl and her family to be "common." And indeed, Daisy wastes no time in flaunting society's rules, setting tongues wagging. As a member of the proletariat, I should not enjoy a book concer...
