Reflection of "Daisy Miller" by: Henry James

The one thing about this novel that I found the most interesting was how judgmental people where towards the others who did not follow their culture. Daisy was on her vacation at Rome and was being judged and seen as a "common" by the Europeans and the Europeanized American. Not only that, but another interesting fact is that Europeanized Americans are far more strict with manners and behavior than the Europeans themselves. Mrs. Walker which was Europeanized American gave her back at Daisy at the party because of her horrible behavior. She was constantly warning Winterbourne about her and that she was pure trouble, and so was his aunt Mrs. Costello. On the other hand, Mr. Giovanelli, which was pure Italian, was more layed off and not so judgmental over Daisy, as a matter of fact he liked her. Daisy was a very independent care free woman, who wanted to be the way she was regardless of what people said. I believe it was very mean of Mrs. Costello to categorize immediately Daisy as a common without knowing her, not because she did't have the change to, but because she did not want to meet her at all. At the end Giovanelli takes her to the Colisseum and she dies of the Roman Fever eveyone was warning her about. Her death is very symbolic meaning that she died for not obeying the rules and behaving the way she did, and many people are happy she did earn her punishment. In my opinion, I think she did not deserve to die; on the contrary, the world needs more woman like Daisy, confident and independent who wont care what others think. Of course, we need to take into consideration the date this novel was written and woman are now a little bit more free and independent than we used to be.