English 3667F/G Lecture : Lecture 024 - Henry James
23 Dec 2011
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First and last paragraph of the story gives us a hint of winterbourne s experience; looking for a. No, they judge individually, not in terms of class: language cue, 351 available in one way, not available in another. Never see daisy apart from winterbourne; always through his eyes then presents self as a test. Randolph is a representation of how americans bring up their children; by european standards, they don t: bad teeth, poking stick, lack of sleeping, out of control (no governess while traveling mark of laissez-faire child raising) Sex does not enter into the equation; daisy is innocent. Daisy s rejection of manners is a rejection of being judged sexually; and her behavior of that is, from her pov, innocent; but from appearances is not. Daisy miller is much easier to read; james s later style grows into long sentences, psychological twists and terms and seems like stream of consciousness.
