Daisy Miller Literary Response

Steve Epting
AP English
Daisy Miller Literary Response
In the novella, Daisy Miller: A Study, The main character was a woman named Daisy Miller. Daisy Miller is traveling abroad to another country. While being there, with her mother and brother, she got into a love affair with a guy named Giovanelli. She gets into a deep relationship with him, and she starts to blow off her family to be with him. From being out with him all night, one night, she got malaria and soon died. One main point that stuck out to me in this text was the sadness and the safety of an unlived life.
Before Miller got into the other country, she was just a wealthy young woman in America. She wasn’t really living her life to the fullest. She wasn’t being ambitious and going after her dreams, she was just quiet and timid. She was enclosed in a box and she couldn’t get out of it. She was trapped and it didn’t look good for her. When people don’t live there life to the fullest, they miss out on opportunities, fun, and new experiences. She was being to safe in her life. This shows you that just because some people are rich, it doesn’t mean that they have more opportunities than other people.
When they traveled to the other country, she met a guy that she really liked. He started to show her new things. She began to like him more and more and that’s when she began to change. She began to blow off her family to be with him and she began to do things that she wouldn’t normally do. It’s true that once people who have been trapped for a while, get freedom, they start to go a little crazy.
At the end of the novella, she dies from malaria. This story is a type of Social Realism. It relates to the issues of people.