Here are the two questions that you wanted us to address.
1. Describe daisy Miller- character description.
1. Describe daisy Miller- character description.
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1. Daisy Miller represents a very interesting idea in this book. She is an atypical woman in the world at the time. Unlike other women, she is not timid and shy to speak to strangers, yet she is not a particularly flirtatious person. She is simply a social person. She enjoys the company of others but doesn't subscribe to their world. She is very much her own person. I see Daisy Miller fitting into our modern world much better than in her own.
2. I find the reaction of Mrs. Costello to Daisy's family to be one of the most interesting parts of this story. Getting straight to it, I think that Winterbourne and his family might represent the typical upper class European family. This is along the same liens of what I said in class. Daisy's family represents the typical American family coming from the gilded age; They are ridiculously rich and in many ways are similar to the European families. However, These two families just do not approve of each other. Mrs. Costello verbally disapproves of the Americans, and Mrs. Miller's lack of acknowledgment of Winterbourne is a good indicator of her disapproval of European families. I think that that mutual dislike might a symbol by the author of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Any ideas?
1. Daisy Miller represents a very interesting idea in this book. She is an atypical woman in the world at the time. Unlike other women, she is not timid and shy to speak to strangers, yet she is not a particularly flirtatious person. She is simply a social person. She enjoys the company of others but doesn't subscribe to their world. She is very much her own person. I see Daisy Miller fitting into our modern world much better than in her own.
2. I find the reaction of Mrs. Costello to Daisy's family to be one of the most interesting parts of this story. Getting straight to it, I think that Winterbourne and his family might represent the typical upper class European family. This is along the same liens of what I said in class. Daisy's family represents the typical American family coming from the gilded age; They are ridiculously rich and in many ways are similar to the European families. However, These two families just do not approve of each other. Mrs. Costello verbally disapproves of the Americans, and Mrs. Miller's lack of acknowledgment of Winterbourne is a good indicator of her disapproval of European families. I think that that mutual dislike might a symbol by the author of something, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Any ideas?
Consider a couple of things: Remember that Winterbourne has a conversation with his aunt where the information emerges that some of his relatives in New York behave similarly to Daisy. Something seems to be changing back home. His aunt is scandalized by their behavior, too. I have struggled with Mrs. Miller's behavior as well. I think she is struggling with the changing times as well; she does not seem to know exactly how to deal with her daughter -- or her son for that matter. What happens to any of us when the rules suddenly change. We will see this kind of thing again and again as we look at the literature. Fitzgerald writes about these things in the 20s. Others will write about them in the 50s and 60s. People are writing about it now. Consider what you run into all the time about social networking, sexting and so on. The rate of change seems to be accelerating and has been for some time. What rules can we rely on?
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