Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Perspectives

Frederick Winterbourne was really fond of her and her charisma, so he decides to arrange an encounter between Daisy and his aunt Mrs. Costello. Mrs. Costello was a really elegant lady who knew a lot of people, but when Frederick tries to introduce Daisy to the lady she says that they are common meaning that they are from a lower social class than her.Mrs. Walker, who was a lady the met in Italy, tries to get some sense in the mind of Daisy, because a young unmarried girl should not walk with a young man and this case two at a time. Walker think Daisy is ruining her and her reputation, but Daisy stays in her place doing what she wants. All of this fuss about Daisy Miller and her young male friends leads to a phase where everyone turned their backs on Daisy and they simply chose to not accept her behavior anymore. Mrs. Miller thinks that Daisy is engaged to Mr. Giovanelli and she talks about it with Mr. Winterbourne.Giovanelli did not even care about her and she showed in that way he disappears when she was ill.It is clear for us that Winterbourne defended Daisy in the eyes of Mrs. Costello and Mrs. Walker and that he thought that Daisy was innocent and good.In the novel “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, we can see that some people thought that “she was not merely immoral, she was “unreasonable””. Some men pointed out that Daisy was a sinner. In Iran a woman is worth half a man and her voice is not taken seriously, that why some mea think Daisy’s behavior is reckless. Some women thought that Daisy was a courageous young woman because she acted like herself at all times and no man or human being could change the way she is.

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