Like anything by Henry James hasn t been done to death. But only in certain quarters. Even when I was at the university, people stuck to their ghettoes.
Life s short, and one spends most of it working for someone else.
The best reason is that you can t know whether you like something or not until you try it. The entire book is under a hundred pages an afternoon s or an evening s reading and Daisy is without a doubt one of the great fascinating and enigmatic characters of American literature. Once James slides his camera over her, she captures all attention and the book flies. She captivates Winterbourne, and he becomes an excellent stand-in for the reader. And of course he ought to be there to catch her, oughtn t he.