Daisy Miller (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1878
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: Vevey, Switzerland, and Rome
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Class consciousness, Diseases, Switzerland or Swiss people, Rome
- Locales: Rome, Italy, Switzerland
Characters Discussed
Daisy Miller, the charming and unconforming American tourist whose inattention to decorum (she walks unchaperoned with an Italian suitor in the daytime) results in her ostracism by the Europeanized Americans in Rome. In defiance, she visits the Colosseum at night with the same young man and later dies of a fever contracted there.
Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate from whose point of view the story is told. At first puzzled by Daisy, he soon becomes convinced that she is immoral. After her death, however, he realizes that he loved her,...
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