DAISY MILLERby Henry James

◦ First published in the June and July 1878 issues of the British magazine Cornhill

◦Original name – “Daisy Miller, a study”

◦ Based on a piece of gossip James heard from a friend in Rome about a young American girl traveling with her wealthy but unsophisticated mother in Europe

Society

Winterbourne Daisy Miller

Winterbourne – Daisy Miller

Structure

◦ This novella consists of two parts :

◦ First part takes place in Vevey, Switzerland

◦ Second part takes place in Rome, Italy

Narrative perspective

◦ distant first-person narrator who knows but is not knowledgeable, who is interested but not involved

◦ unreliable truth

Themes, Motifs, and Symbols◦ “the grand tour”

◦ the sadness and safety of the unlived life

◦ gossip

◦ innocence

◦Daisy and Randolph

◦ The Coliseum

etc.