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A 6 page paper which compares Daisy Miller from Henry James’ novel and Daisy Buchanan from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” No additional sources cited.
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that are not incredibly dissimilar. They are relatively simple women looking for love, but also women who never really seem to display a great deal of desire, passion, or emotion.
The following paper first examines Daisy Miller and then Daisy Buchanan, illustrating how they are both lost souls without a great deal of enlightened perspectives. The paper then compares the
two. Daisy Miller Daisy Miller is a relatively ignorant young woman who seeks out what she believes is the proper society and the proper life for a young
woman. Being somewhat ignorant, however, ensures that she sees society as one where she is attended by men and where she can get pretty feminine things. This is evident in
the beginning of the novel when she first meets Winterbourne: "There isnt any society; or, if there is, I dont know where it keeps itself. Do you? I
suppose there is some society somewhere, but I havent seen anything of it. Im very fond of society, and I have always had a great deal of it...In New York
I had lots of society. Last winter I had seventeen dinners given me; and three of them were by gentlemen" (James Part I). She makes the point of
ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly monotonous smile" (James Chapter I). Even though she seems ignorant,
Winterbourne likes to tell himself that it is just innocence, not really ignorance, and so he pursues her to some degree, trying to find out if there is more to
her than he sees. Daisy is very much a young woman who likes to be entertained and pursued. She likes fancy things. This is essentially the extent of her
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