Daisy Miller
Complete textAt a Swiss hotel, Winterbourne becomes interested in Daisy Miller, a young American whose easy familiarity puzzles him. As their acquaintance continues among expatriate society, Daisy's conduct becomes a subject of scrutiny, and his attraction competes with the judgments he hears around him.
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Much of the tension lies in interpretation rather than hidden action: Winterbourne keeps trying to decide what kind of person Daisy is. Social labels arrive faster than understanding. Conversations about propriety expose how a community turns uncertain impressions into confident verdicts, especially when a young woman does not anticipate its rules.
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Distinguish Daisy's actions from the assumptions Winterbourne and his social circle attach to them.
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Author: Henry James. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake—a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array of establishments of this order, of every category, from the “grand hotel” of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name inscribed in German-looking lettering upon a pink or yellow wall and an awkward…
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