Daisy miller is a story of a man
named Winterbourne who on a trip to Vevey, Switzerland, meets a young woman
named Daisy miller. Since the moments he meets her, he feels attracted to her
and is then undergoing a type of internal journey in trying to understand what
type of girl Daisy Miller is. While on Switzerland, he visits a castle with
Daisy Miller and they seem to be enjoying themselves until he tells her that he
has to leave the next day. Daisy miller doesn’t like this but he promises that
he will visit her in Rome.
When
Winterbourne goes to see Daisy Miller, He notices that she is not in love with
him as he is with her. She begins to spend most of her time with another man
named Giovanelli and people begin to see bad things about her, much like the
ones Mrs. Costello said about her at the hotel. At the end it is that very same
feeling of freedom and of being a tourist that daisy Miller felt, that kills
her because she got a fever one night when she was spending some time with
Giovanelli. At the end, Winterbourne feels bad because of her dead and comes to
the conclusion that she simply did not want to be romantically involved with
anyone, he understands that he was never going to understand her thus leave his
internal journey unsolved.
In my
opinion Daisy Miller had a attitude of a free person simply enjoying life and
no wanting to be engaged to anyone. An attitude which can be compare to that of
a tourist. Winterbourne was more of a traveler since he travelled to other
places to visit families and he had already travelled to the places before like
for example the castle which he took Daisy Miller. The book really shocked me
at the ending and was a very interesting story to read with a good
interpretation to how life was at that era.
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