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Daisy Miller Loss Of Innocence
[pic] Daisy Miller is a 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy.

Daisy Miller in wonderland
After read Daisy Miller
Recently I read the novel daisy miller which written by Henry James. It’s a short novel but the vocabularies are difficult to me, so after I found the movie and saw it with Xueqin.
Daisy is an American girl who is beautiful and open. Her kindness and passion make her so charming that many gentlemen admire her. She traveled to Europe with her mother and brother. All her family
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Because more and more people blame her, winterbourne was changed. At first people said she was a flirt, he always defend that “she was innocent”. But he wasn’t believe and understand her. Daisy seems close to Mr. Gionavelli, but when they singing together, she stared at winterbourne. She want to use this extreme way to prove the love between them. As if winterbourne believe her, she can win the wars between herself and the world. But finally she was lost.
She was lost to the world.
Just as the end of the story. She caught the disease and died. The last time she met winterbourne, he told she that if she going round at night again, she’ll catch the disease. She answered” I never was sick, and I don’t care to get the roman fever.”
She is so confident and fearless, but that time the walls in her heart have already collapsed.

PS: I really like this story very much, how I wish I can write this composition in Chinese…
By WangZhuo(whose English is to poor to express her opinion)

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