{"id":102,"date":"2017-02-15T18:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/?p=102"},"modified":"2020-08-31T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:39:13","slug":"winterbournes-initial-reaction-to-daisys-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/2017\/02\/15\/winterbournes-initial-reaction-to-daisys-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Winterbourne’s Initial Reaction to Daisy’s Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

On page six of Henry James\u2019, <\/span>Daisy Miller, <\/span><\/i>Winterbourne and Master Randolph are discussing how American things are the best. Master Randolph says that American candy is the best while Winterbourne says that American boys are the best. The conversation continues and Winterbourne see\u2019s Randolph sister and declares that American women are the best. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale coloured ribbon (James, 6).\u201d This line indicates that Winterbourne is initially attracted to Daisy Miller because of his expectations of her appearance. This is proven from the words \u201cwhite, frills and pale coloured.\u201d What I mean is that the color white represents innocence, purity, virginity, and perfection. This is important because all of the words contain a positive connotation (colorwheelpro.com) which can infer that Winterbourne views Daisy Miller positively because he thinks she is innocent, pure, a virgin and perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can conclude that using the word \u201cfrills\u201d to describe what Daisy is wearing is comparing her to a child. I associate the words frilly and frilled with little girls dresses which is important because it indicates similar characteristics that the color white represents. It shows that Winterbourne initially judges Daisy\u2019s personality based off of her appearance and is attracted to the fact that she has the innocence, purity, sexual experience and perfection that a little girl would have. The most important part of this is that Winterbourne expects Daisy to be a passive and well mannered girl that he would be able to control. He also thinks that she has the manners of an upperclass woman meaning that she does not speak out against people and is accepted by the upper classes social norms. These norms would include refraining from being openly sexual and flirting with men. <\/span><\/p>\n

Winterbourne\u2019s\u201cpale coloured\u201d description of Daisy\u2019s outfit proves his schema of Daisy. Pale, in contrast to bright or bold is rather hidden. It does not have the power to be overpowering and is very limited in attracting attention. This is the same exact way that Winterbourne interprets Daisy\u2019s personality, he believes that she is a soft spoken girl who will never be the center of attention. The importance of how Winterbourne describes Daisy\u2019s outfit is foreshadowing that Daisy\u2019s appearance is not representative of her personality. This is most important because it foreshadows that Daisy breaks the social norms of a woman in the upper class. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On page six of Henry James\u2019, Daisy Miller, Winterbourne and Master Randolph are discussing how American things are the best. Master Randolph says that American candy is the best while Winterbourne says that American boys are the best. The conversation continues and Winterbourne see\u2019s Randolph sister and declares that American women are the best. \u201cShe … Continue reading Winterbourne’s Initial Reaction to Daisy’s Appearance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138876,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2017","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/19thcennovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}