daisy miller
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DAISY MILLERby Henry James
◦ First published in the June and July 1878 issues of the British magazine Cornhill
◦Original name – “Daisy Miller, a study”
◦ Based on a piece of gossip James heard from a friend in Rome about a young American girl traveling with her wealthy but unsophisticated mother in Europe
Society
Winterbourne Daisy Miller
Winterbourne – Daisy Miller
Structure
◦ This novella consists of two parts :
◦ First part takes place in Vevey, Switzerland
◦ Second part takes place in Rome, Italy
Narrative perspective
◦ distant first-person narrator who knows but is not knowledgeable, who is interested but not involved
◦ unreliable truth
Themes, Motifs, and Symbols◦ “the grand tour”
◦ the sadness and safety of the unlived life
◦ gossip
◦ innocence
◦Daisy and Randolph
◦ The Coliseum
etc.
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