Gender's Role In Daisy Miller

In the literary works, Little Women, The Color Purple, and Woman Hollering Creek, the characters of Marmee, Nettie, and Cleófilas embody identities that exemplify their differing cultures. However, all three women experience similar impediments on their identities through the existence of patriarchal dominance in their cultures, which functions to limit their ability to move outside of restrictive gender roles. In Little Women, Marmee epitomizes the ideal republican WASP mother, who is inhibited by her culture to remain in the domestic realm. Her duty as a republican mother is to place an emphasis on education, sacrifice her needs for the greater good of the country, promote Christian values, and instill a robust work ethic on her daughters.

Randolph influence Winterbourne’s (and the reader's) initial impression of Daisy shortly thereafter because Daisy is more looking after America. She's more of the young one and about what goes on with things. She is up for conversations. As for her brother Randolph is different from Daisy. He is an ugly American that he only shows pride in himself and he only cares about himself. He doesn't care about what happens to anyone. You can see they have a different side from each other and why they argue all the time about what American is what. Though Randolph is only nine years old he does seem to think these things. Randolph is always searching for candy, and when he first meets Winterbourne he asks him if he could have a lump of sugar. Winterbourne

In Henry James's “Daisy Miller,” the main character Frederick Winterbourne masks Daisy Miller’s personality with his own imagination. Told from a limited narration point of view, this novel solely emphasizes Mr. Winterbourne’s perception of the world around him, focusing most on Ms. Daisy’s character. Mr. Winterbourne aims to unravel Ms. Miller’s character make-up throughout chapter one, using only his and his aunt’s preconceived notions of women in American society. By being too introspective and imaginative, Mr. Winterbourne is unable to see Ms. Miller as anything more but a conquest, and therefore he is unable to empathize with her as another human being.

Daisy is one of the key people he deceives. From the day they met to the last day they spoke had always been lies from his end. His intention was to make her fall back in love with him and to keep her there by his side. At first, it was in the process of working. Everything he told her had been lies and she had believed everything that had came out of his mouth. His world had revolved around her, he would do anything for her. First, he moved in across the way in a large house hoping she could see it.

In Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” and Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two,” the narrators each disclose the complications of their party’s social formalities during circumstances within their own society. In both short stories, Winterbourne and Waythorn try to figure out their adored ones character and motives but for different reasons. In “Daisy Miller,” it’s noticeable that Mr. Winterbourne ends up longing for Daisy Miller as he tries to fully categorize the character she’s carelessly ruining. While in “The Other Two,” the narrator examines a society of how a married couple, Waythorn and Alice, adjust to an awkward

Daisy illustrates the typical women of high social standing; her life is moulded by society’s expectations. She is dependent and subservient to her husband. She is powerless in her marriage.

James' manipulation of appearances in Daisy Miller as well as other character's notions of these appearances provides us with a novella of enigmatic and fascinating characters. Daisy, the most complicated of these ambiguities, is as mysterious as she is flirtatious. James gives her a carefully constructed enigmatic quality that leaves the reader wondering what her motivations were and who she truly was. He structures the novella in such a way as to stress the insights that the supporting characters provide into Daisy's character, weather accurate or erroneous. Despite their questionable reliability, they allow James to make commentary on both European and American cultures and social class.

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I believe initially Winterbourne judged Daisy, but overall he realized she was a naïve girl full of innocence. I think Daisy forgot where she have come from not Winterbourne. Daisy behavior was inappropriate even for an American girl at that time. Daisy forgot her status as a woman, so behaved as a common girl would have. She had the means (finances) to travel, which allowed her to become involved in all sorts of trouble that a common girl would have had a harder time to become involved in. Winterbourne attempted to save her, even though in the beginning his intentions were not the

Daisy been call as in the story. Also, intriguing discovery of Daisy Miller was that the Daisy wasn't her gave name which she got from her parent. Her real name was and she changed to Daisy Miller.

He allowed his time in Europe to cloud his judgement about what a good girl was and how she was to behave and that was his great mistake. He missed out on what could have been a good relationship with Daisy. Winterbourne tells his aunt, Mrs. Costello, that he has,”done her (Daisy) an injustice” (459). Winterbourne acknowledged that he understood Daisy’s message to him before her death. She wanted him to know that she was not engaged to be married.

Daisy Miller, a novella written by Henry James, and A Doll’s House, a three-act play written by Henrik Ibsen, are both set in the late 1800’s. Women were not allowed much freedom from their husbands at this time. They could not own property, keep their own wages, or enter into contracts on their own. For example in A Doll’s House, Nora was not allowed to borrow money without her husband's help but Nora did not want her husband so she had to lie. Nora plays her role as a women in the play A Doll’s House just like the women of that time normally would, until the end when she gains courage to stand up to her husband. In Daisy Miller, however, Daisy does not fit in with the role women would normally play. The heroines in each of the stories have significant roles

In 1878, Henry James wrote, Daisy Miller, a novella about a young American girl and her travels in Europe. Daisy Miller is a complex short story with many underlying themes such as appearance versus reality, knowledge versus innocence, outward action versus inward meditation, and Nature versus urbanity. In this short story, one is left to judge whether Daisy Miller, the main character of the story, is “a pretty American flirt” or a misunderstood, modern young woman. By probing into the complexities and contradictions of Daisy’s character, it is obvious that Ms. Miller is merely a misunderstood young woman.

When Winterbourne first meets Daisy, he is willing to accept her for the vivacious young American girl she is. Although Daisy's customs are not what are expected of young girls in European society, Winterbourne is charmed by Daisy and her original ideals. He defends Daisy to the aristocracy, claiming that she is just "uncultivated" and is truly innocent. As the story progresses, Winterbourne finds himself questioning Daisy's true nature in comparison to the standards of European society. Winterbourne's opinion of Daisy changes from acceptance to condemnation as his tolerance of cultural standards is clouded by the prejudices of the European aristocrats.

In 1990 Judith Butler first published her book Gender Troubles, where she questions gender roles. Butler theorizes that gender, as in male and female, is a type of societal/gender colonialism created to keep people who do not fall within the gender roles from being part of the mainstream society. In her 1999 preface, in which she addresses the impact her book had in the decade since its original publication, Butler expresses the concern she had with the “heterosexual assumption in feminist literary theory (61).” Butler utilizes the works of other feminist philosophers to further demonstrate the inconsistency, and disconnect between fighting for women rights and fighting for human rights. Judith Butler makes an interesting argument on the failure to recognize the spectrum of gender, however, she makes a compelling argument on the use of language perpetuating a patriarchal society.