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Gender and sexuality – Gender plays a large role in the story of Daisy Miller. In the beginning and at the end, Winterbourne is known to be “studying” in Geneva. What this really means is that he is spending time with older, foreign coquettes. On the other hand, Daisy Miller is heavily looked down upon especially when she is in Rome. When Winterbourne arrives in Rome, his aunt tells him “When she comes to a party she brings with her a gentleman with a good deal of manner and a wonderful mustache.” Also, people continue to question her actions throughout the novella. For example, when Daisy Miller explains that she is going to the Pincio, Mrs. Walker replies with, “Alone, my dear—at this hour?” The carriage scene is another example of this happening. Both Mrs. Walker and Winterbourne tell her that she should go home because they are worried about her reputation being ruined by her walking the streets of Rome. In conclusion, Winterbourne is never confronted about what he does with older foreign ladies whether it is in the beginning or in the end of the novella. However, Daisy Miller’s actions are criticized. Both gender and the attraction between Winterbourne and Daisy Miller play a large theme. Winterbourne’s ultimate desire is to have Daisy Miller to himself to ultimately marry

Daisy Miller is Henry James reputation at home and the whole world. It also heled to make of the American girl in a famous culture types. Daisy Miller traveled with her mother to Europe from America. They were newly rich family by have a success in business, and they going to Europe to learn more different culture to enrich their culture, but in Europe they found that the society behaves by different standers. It was not right for a young women to go out with a lot different men, and especially not to go out by themselves or alone at night. Daisy Miller broke the social conventions, and it turned out that she had some kind of influenza by going out in the night of Rome and died, as a punished for breaking the conventions of European society.

Daisy Miller: A Study is a short story that focuses on the various dramatic encounters between the American woman Daisy Miller and Fredrick Winterbourne, an American born but European raised gentleman. The narrative drives us to enter Winterbourne’s view of the vivacious Daisy and how at first he is seeking to understand her flirtatious behavior then try to control her to better assist her in fitting in high society. Daisy being a young socialite herself is not keen on people telling her how to live life and prefers to be in the company of gentlemen to satisfy her loneliness. This behavior is viewed by her social peers like Winterbourne as taboos for women and remarked upon several times. However, no one quite notices the

Gender issues also colors some parts of Winterbourne’s misperceptions about Daisy’s character. The author, Henry James, and the main character were both males. Each of them had contributed to the narator that Winterbourne couldn’t understand Daisy’s character for she was a female. The narrator descrips of Daisy by saying “she was very unsophisticated; she was only a pretty American flirt. Winterbourne was almost grateful for having found the formula that applied to Miss Daisy Miller” is an example of that (202). Second, both the Author Henry James and Winterbourne had described Daisy as “a flirt- a pretty American flirt”(202), which is an offense to the American ladies for the word ‘flirt‘ was then associated with sexual issues. These sexual behaviors altered, the clever girl, Daisy and blinded Winterbourne from seeing Daisy’s real character.

The story “Daisy Miller” is a romance of a love that can never be. The character Annie P. Miller (known as Daisy Miller) is portrayed as a young naive wild yet, innocent girl who want to do nothing more but have fun with the company she please. The story “Daisy Miller” is a lot like The Age of Innocence. In both the movie and the book the leading lady was shunned from society because of their behavior. Both Daisy and the Countess Olenska were misunderstood and out-casted because they were saw as different. These women did not want to conform to what the society thought was proper and good, they had their own opinion and was bold in their time to state it.

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid analyzes the ugliness of tourism through the effects of colonialism. The book is a punch in the gut for every tourist, westerner, and individuals who are the product of colonialism. Most western education does not teach the full context of colonialism. The extension of students’ knowledge is the Berlin conference of 1884, which divided African territory between Europeans and US leaders without the inclusion of Africans. The education in the West does not delve into the impact of the conference after colonialism. There is never a mention about the lack of identity throughout the region, the lackluster of education, or the social and government corruption. Textbooks tend to have a brief chapter titled

Throughout history, people have always obeyed rules predetermined for their lives by society in order to maintain status and respect in their communities. In the 1800s, women were strivers to their husbands and family, and were set to devote themselves entirely to that cause. In his 1881 romance novel, The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James provides challenges the concept of female individuality in society through the protagonist, Isabel Archer, who emphasizes how miserable obeying the status quo makes her; Nevertheless, Archer ignores her innermost desires to please the demands of society and of her wicked husband. The empathetic narration of the novel highlights the nonconformist theme James embedded throughout.

In the novella, Daisy Miller by Henry James, the complexities of social conventions, gender stereotyping and conformity are exposed through the actions and words of the protagonists. Daisy Miller is the young woman who invites a multitude of speculation regarding her personality and behavior. James creates ambiguity around Daisy as an insightful glimpse into the harsh social expectations of the day. Daisy is outgoing and forthright, desires attention, and strays into an area that is considered unbecoming of a young woman traveling in Europe.

Certain characters in this novel display the tradition of the early 1800’s characterized by a desire only for marriage and a complete dependence on men for emotional support. Fanny Dashwood is a character in the novel that displays a constant emphasis on wealth and social connections; she is not

There is an importance of the international theme that helps people better understand the differences of American and European culture. When these two cultures clash, this leads to understanding just how different Americans are from their European counterparts. Even though the international theme helps one find the differences in the continent and country, it also enables one to note the significant evilness that Europe possesses.

Social Forces are the “Forces of the environment that include the demographic characteristics of the population and its values.” (Richard J. Ch.3) The social forces can affect the conceptual framework of marriage, education, social class, and politics. In the Nineteenth Century, many authors addressed those social forces in forms of novels. Among those authors were William Makepeace Thackeray and Thomas Hardy. This essay will compare and contrast the nature and function of society and social forces on Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Hardy’s Tess D’Urberville.

Charles Brockden Brown’s novel, Arthur Mervyn, allows readers to join Arthur Mervyn’s journey in letting go of his past to create a better present state for himself. Not only does Arthur gain wisdom in his journey, but he also serves as a heroic character by improving the lives of others, whether it be by finding a family’s lost money or finding someone a better home. His heroic acts show positivity in a time of despair during the deathly yellow fever epidemic in  Philadelphia 1793. Along with the epidemic, the novel elaborates on the importance of social class in each of the characters. It then becomes clear that one’s social class and reputation are dependent on virtue in this time period. With this focus on social hierarchy, the female prostitutes present in Arthur Mervyn are stigmatized as low class citizens because they lack virtue, regardless of their financial standing.

In Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever”, “The Muse’s Tragedy”, and “The Other Two”, she showed the subtle difference of formal upper-class society, by paying attention to the histories of relationship Alida Slade and Grace Ansley from ‘Roman Fever”, Mrs. Alice Waythorn with the three men in her life from “The Other Two”, and Ms. Anerton with the love of her life from “The Muse’s Tragedy”. Wharton expressed her concern with social pressures and the expectations that were placed upon women, by having these female characters defy them all. There were a lot of things that were very uncommon to society; for example, seeing a woman like Alice Waythorn file to consider a divorce; not once, but twice. Having Grace Ansley marry a man who was not the father of her daughter was frowned upon by society. Edith Wharton indicated how the life of Ms. Slade, Ms. Ansley, and Ms. Anerton changed when they decided to pursue a man who was unfaithful and didn’t love

Throughout modern history, people have always obeyed rules present for their lives by society in order to maintain status and respect in their communities. In the 1800s, women were practically slaves to their husbands and family and were set to devote themselves entirely to that cause. In his 1881 romance novel, The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James provides a challenge of the concept of female individuality in society through the protagonist, Isabel Archer: who emphasizes how miserable obeying the status quo makes her, but ultimately continues to abide by it. Nevertheless, Archer ignores her innermost desires to please the demands of society and of her wicked husband. The narration of the novel highlights the hidden nonconformist theme James embedded throughout.

The narrative begins with the first encounter of Daisy and Winterbourne. However, the presentation of Daisy as a spirited young woman who is not bound by social norms astounds him. He is unable to understand or comprehend Daisy’s actions; therefore, he is not capable of placing her in any category of people in society. Daisy’s behavior illustrates a deviance from the norms which can be attributed to social class stratification in the European community. The upper class women are expected to behave and act accordingly while in public. Furthermore, such women are required to have a defined etiquette when addressing members of the opposite sex.