Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller shows the various tensions between Europe and America. Daisy Miller starts out in a hotel in Vevey, Switzerland when a gentleman named Winterbourne meets Daisy, a young, beautiful American girl traveling through Europe. Daisy and her mother, Mrs. Miller, are traveling all over Europe while her father is home in Schenectady, New York working. While Daisy is in Europe she does not accept European ideas to be her own, unlike many Americans living …

…the entire story she did not want to, nor did she adopt European culture. However, she dies tragically from Roman fever, something that could have been prevented if she followed the European culture, and her mother's advice, to be in early, and not be on the streets late at night. All in all, this story shows the battles between European customs, and Daisy wanting to just be herself, unencumbered by the societal norms around her.