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Daisy Miller was one of James’s earliest treatments of one of the themes for which he became best known: the expatriate or footloose American abroad. Americans abroad was a subject very much of the moment in the years after the Civil War. The postwar boom, the so-called Gilded Age, had given rise to a new class of American businessman, whose ...
Daisy Miller Character Analysis. Although the novella takes Winterbourne ’s point of view throughout, the book can in large part be considered a character study of Daisy Miller, a young, very pretty, independent-minded American from Schenectady, New York, who has come to Europe with her mother and brother Randolph.
La señorita Annie P. Miller aparece en Vevey, Suiza, con su madre y su hermano. Su padre, opulento y tosco nuevo rico, quiere pulirla y europeizarla. Daisy, como es llamada, conoce a un refinado joven norteamericano llamado Winterbourne, que se interesa por ella, desconcertado por su desenfado y su coqueta falta de tacto.
Mrs. Miller's wandering eyes attached themselves, with a sort of appealing air, to Daisy, who, however, strolled a few steps farther, gently humming to herself. "I presume you will go in the cars," said her mother. "Yes, or in the boat," said Winterbourne. "Well, of course, I don't know," Mrs. Miller rejoined.
Her name is Daisy Miller. The boy is her brother, and they are in Vevey with their mother. They came from Schenectady, Winterbourne learns, and they intend to go next to Italy. Randolph insists ...
Roman fever, especially with respect to the prevalent theory of aerial transmission, also symbolizes the insidious ways that rumors and gossip seep through the air, infecting Daisy and isolating her from the social set of Americans abroad in Rome. Rome is the source of excitement, thrills, and novelty for Daisy, but it also will ultimately ...
Daisy Miller é uma novela de Henry James primeiramente publicada na Cornhill Magazine nos meses de junho-julho de 1878 [ 1] e em livro no mesmo ano [ 2]. Trata do corte da bela jovem Daisy Miller por Winterhouse, um sofisticado compatriota, enquanto ambos se encontram no exterior. Sua busca por ela, contudo, é perturbada pelos flertes da ...
