Americans are very good-natured for the most part, and this trait will always make them a little apart from the rest of the Western societies. De Tocqueville sees women in America as extremely different from the women in Europe. He sees American women as worldly and unaffected by the European naivet and ignorance. He sees the influence of democracy in every action of a female. She has none of the rigid social restraints of the Europeans, and in so, needs to know how to combat her passions herself and not rely on society to do it for her.
American women are self-assured and strong of opinion.
They have an innate ability to be strong and independent while still respectful of their husbands and fathers. Religion helps in maintaining constraints on the female population, but democratic societies hold the woman responsible for herself. De Tocqueville has left no aspect of American society out of his publication. He rips the American body open and examines all the things that are inside right down to the bare bones. It is a little scary to read of ones own nation and its culture.