the character of daisy miller and her view of winterbourne -- 谢迪青
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The Character of Daisy Miller and Her View of Winterbourne
--谢迪青
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Daisy Miller
• A beautiful, innocent, fresh, and natural girl
• She grew up in America and was deeply influenced by the spirit of freedom.
• She lives a free life according to her will.
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The character of Daisy
ⅰ Mr. Winterbourne
Mr. Giovanelli
ⅱ Mrs. Walker
Mrs. Costello
ⅲ The feminist
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For Winterbourne
• “ But this young girl was not a coquette in that sense; she was very unsophisticated; she was only a pretty American flirt.”
• “She seems to him, in all this , an extraordinary mixture of innocence and crudity.”
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• “She was too light and childish, too uncultivated and unreasoning, too provincial, to have reflected upon her ostracism, or even to have perceived it.”
• “the ambiguity of Daisy’s behavior, and the riddle has become easy to read. She was a young lady whom a gentleman need no longer be at pains to respect.”
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For Mr. Giovanelli
• “ She was the most beautiful young lady I ever saw, and the most amiable”; then he added in a moment, “ and she was the most innocent. ”
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The view of Daisy
• Mr. Winterbourne• Mr. Giovanelli
• The representative of the male-dominated society
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• Daisy was a beautiful, warm, innocent girl, who just lack of traditional culture awareness.
• And all her behavior was on her nature without any hypocrisy, which seems to be uneducated and uncultivated.
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For Mrs. Costello
• “ of course she is pretty . But she is very common.”
• “ What a dreadful girl !”
• “ They are hopelessly vulgar, whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being ‘bad’ is question for the metaphysicians. They are bad enough to dislike.”
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For Mrs. Walker
• She was a reckless girl.
• “so I though that a month ago. But she has been going too far.”
• “she was naturally indelicate.”
• “she never enters my drawing-room again.”
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The view of Daisy
• Mr. Winterbourne• Mr. Giovanelli
• Mrs. Walker• Mrs. Costello
• The representative of the male-dominated society
• The representative of the conservative people
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• Daisy was a vulgar, ignorant and dreadful flirt, whose strange behavior aroused the dissatisfaction of the conservative people.
• She dares to break the social conventions and is doomed to be isolated from the society.
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For feminist
• Daisy symbolizes the free, pure and independent women in the new world.
• Her fearless behavior shows that women desire to break the yoke of the traditional society.
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• “In Geneva, a young man was not at liberty to speak to a young unmarried lady except under certain rarely occurring conditions. But she was not in the least embarrassed herself. There had not been the slightest alteration in her charming complexion; she was evidently, neither offended nor fluttered.”
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• “I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”
• “I have never heard anything so stiff ! If this is improper, Mrs. Walker,” she pursed, “then I am improper, and you must give me up.”
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• The conflict between Daisy and the traditional patriarchal society is plain, and Daisy is a symbol of self awareness.
• The characteristics of Daisy is highly praised by feminist, and she was regarded as an ideal female image, striving for her dream at that time.
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Her View of Winterbourne
• Too stiff
• “what on earth are you so solemn about? I like to make you say those things. You are a queer mixture.”
• “as I have had the pleasure of informing you, you are stiff.”
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• Very handsome• “Mr. Giovanelli is a great friend of mine an
d the handsomest man in the world-except Mr. Winterbourne.”
• Uncaring• “why you are awfully mean up at Vevey,”
Daisy said. “You wouldn’t do most anything. You wouldn’t stay there when I asked you.”
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• At first, Daisy thought Mr. Winterbourne is different from other Europeans, he can understand her pursuit of freedom.
• But when Daisy found that Mr. Winterbourne treated her as an American flirt ,she felt disappointed and hurt.
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