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Daisy contrasts sharply with Winterbourne. Flowers die in winter and this is precisely what happens to Daisy after catching "Roman fever". As an objective analogue to this psychological reality, Daisy catches the very real Roman fever, the malaria that was endemic to many Roman neighbourhoods in the 19th century.
- Henry James
- United Kingdom
- 1879
- 1879
Daisy's death serves two major functions in the novel. First, as her own imprudence and ignorance of local circumstances are in part to blame, her death suggests to Americans that, as...
A: The ending of “Daisy Miller,” with Daisy’s death from malaria contracted at the Colosseum, reflects on the theme of innocence in a complex way. Daisy’s innocence, both in terms of her disregard for social norms and her lack of awareness of the consequences of her actions, ultimately leads to her demise.
A few days later, Daisy becomes gravely ill, and she dies soon after. Before dying, she gives her mother a message to pass on to Winterbourne that indicates that she cared what he thought about her after all.
- Henry James
- 1879
Daisy Miller begins in the resort town of Vevay, in Switzerland, where a young expatriate American, Mr. Winterbourne, has arrived from Geneva (where, according to various rumors, he either studies or pursues an older foreign lady) to spend some time with his aunt, Mrs. Costello.
In her innocence, Daisy is compromised by her friendship with an Italian man. Her behaviour shocks Winterbourne and the other Americans living in Italy, and they shun her. Only after she dies does Winterbourne recognize that her actions reflected her spontaneous, genuine, and unaffected nature and that his suspicions of her were unwarranted.
Publisher The Cornhill magazine. In-depth Facts: Narrator Third-person limited. Point of view Winterbourne’s. Tone Light, easy-going, at times almost conversational; unsentimental; ironic. Tense Past. Setting (time) The 1870s; “three or four years” before the telling of the story.
