num_pages: 126
description: To Winterbourne, the young man who meets her in the garden of a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva and is immediately captivated, Daisy presents an agonizing dilemma. She apparently thinks nothing of 'flirting with any man she could pick up', and although in public Winterbourne defends her as simply 'uncultivated', privately he hesitates. This indecision gives particular edge and poignancy to the novella, in which James portrays the sweetest of all his American princesses. 'Daisy is ... the prototype of all those young American female tourists who continue to baffle their continental lovers,' according to the critic Leslie Fiedler. 'What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does ...'
language: English
title: Daisy Miller
titlecomplete: Daisy Miller
characters: Mrs Costello, Eugênio, Mrs Walker, Daisy Miller, Randolph Miller, Giovanelli, Mrs Miller, Frederick Winterbourne
genres: Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Novella, Novels, School, Romance, Literature, 19th Century, American
ratings_count: 33244
places: Vevey, Rome
publisher: Penguin Classics