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by Henry James (Author) "At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large Print edition edition (Dec 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0754049841
  • ISBN-13: 978-0754049845
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Daisy Miller, pretty but unsophisticated, runs athwart the conventions of a group of Europeanised Americans. To Winterbourne, who is captivated by her, Daisy presents an agonising dilemma. She apparently thinks nothing of flirting with any man she meets, and privately he is hesitating. His indecision gives poignancy to James's portrayal of the sweetest of all his American princesses.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "I haven't the least idea what such young ladies expect a man to do.", 28 Jun 2006
By Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daisy Miller (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
One of Henry James's earliest novellas, Daisy Miller (1878) follows the activities of a wealthy, and brashly confident, young American woman as she audaciously challenges European society in Vevey, Switzerland, and in Rome, having fun, doing what pleases her, and leaving staid European society gasping in her wake. Daisy Miller, whose father is in the US and whose mother is her ineffectual "chaperone," is a free spirit in a society bound by unstated but rigid "rules," determined to do whatever she wants, whenever she wants, with whomever she chooses.

Frederick Winterbourne, an ex-patriot who has spent most of his life in Geneva, is attracted to Daisy, but his bonds with his stuffy aunt, Mrs. Cosgrove, and her friend, Mrs. Walker, both of whom govern ex-patriot society in Europe, leave him ill-equipped to deal with Daisy's flouting of society's conventions. When she is obviously attracted to Mr. Giovanelli, a singer/musician of no social standing, and when she is seen with him publicly in places that a "nice" girl would not grace at night, her reputation is threatened, and anyone associated with her is tainted. Winterbourne is uncertain how to protect her, while, not incidentally, protecting his own reputation.

Developing his most famous theme, James considers the conflicts between American and European values and the naivete of the Americans and their spontaneity as it contrasts with the old world formality of the Europeans. Daisy, who is often foolishly nave, is also seen as brash and ego-centric, a young woman whose destiny cannot be avoided (or even predicted) because of the strength of her own, often wrong, willfulness.

James focuses on two characters here--both Daisy and Winterbourne--and though the story is told from Winterbourne's point of view, Daisy is often the more vibrant of the two characters. Though she is shallow and assertive, he is hidebound by convention, leaving both characters with limits in terms of reader identification. When a night-time dalliance leads to serious consequences for Daisy, the reader is neither surprised nor shocked.

Filled with trenchant observations about Americans and their differences from Europeans, the novel incorporates significant symbols--the Coliseum (associated with innocent Christian martyrs), malaria (to which Americans are particularly susceptible), Randolph (Daisy's rude and undisciplined 10-year-old brother, the ugliest of Americans), and Mrs. Cosgrove and Mrs. Walker (converts to the European way of life). Carefully observed and critical of American naivete, Daisy Miller is the "preface" to Portrait of a Lady and many of James's more fully developed novels. Mary Whipple
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1 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Lawless passions, 9 Feb 2006
By Luc REYNAERT (Beernem, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daisy Miller (Penguin Popular Classics) (Paperback)
This story is extremely conventional.

Daisy Miller, its main character, shows 'reckless behaviour': 'Flirting with any man she could pick up; sitting in corners with mysterious Italians; dancing all the time with the same partners; receiving visit at eleven o'clock at night. Her mother goes away when visitors come.'
For the American community in Europe, Daisy Miller is 'running absolutely wild'. Her behaviour is totally inadmissible and abnormal.
But, no problem, morality is saved. Daisy visits the Colosseum, a nest of malaria, with her Italian friend. She dies a week later, not without leaving a message that 'she would have reciprocated one's affection', that of a solid American, who 'had an old attachment for the little metropolis of Calvinism'. Death is a well-deserved punishment for a 'POOR girl'.

For Henry James, Daisy's mixture of 'audacity, puerility and innocence is inscrutable.'

This moralist story can be read in all school classes studying Victorian upper class conventions.

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