"Daisy Miller"

Daisy Miller is a young lady who enjoys living on the outside, who enjoys adventure and traveling. Daisy Miller is a traveler by nature she spends all of her time in the search of a new place, like she said to Mr. Winterbourne, “we are in the cars about half the time.” That part right there lets us know that the family spent their days traveling across Europe. When you are a tourist you just go to a place or series of places for a short amount of time and then after that go back home where you belong. When you are a traveler you make your home in a new place every other night or week living in hotels and spending your days in a car. Randolph was clearly tired of that lifestyle, he just wanted to go back to New York for candy, friends or go back with his dad who he seems to admire very much. Daisy was a very decided person "See here, Eugenio!"  "I'm going to that old castle, anyway.” when she wanted to visit any place she would go no matter what because her life was a vacation, because she is a traveler.

People some times feel the need to act like others or show another personality that isn’t theirs. Daisy Miller for example was back in the United States Annie Miller. Maybe she didn’t feel comfortable with who she was before becoming a traveler so when she arrived to Europe she adopted a new personality to reach out for who she really wanted to be, an adventurous young and beautiful woman. Winterbourne on the other hand had been so much time in Europe that he got confused by a German. This is not his fault but it is just how the society and the years living in another culture shape you. He admitted to have seen Germans acting and talking like Americans but never an American talking like a German. Mr Giovanelli an Italian young man was centered on the american culture, he learned the language to the point he master it. His goal was to meet more Americans to get to know better the people and their way of acting. This qualities of being so close to be an american give him the opportunity to spend some time with a young and beautiful American woman.

The society, the generations and the time where you live in is what in the most part shapes who you are. The society plays the biggest role on shaping people, the richer you are the more cultivated person you become and start to reject the actions of the lower class society. Mrs. Costello was a person of high distinction in her circles and was a very strong critique on other peoples actions. For her the fact that her nephew was going out with Daisy was almost a sin, Daisy on her eyes was the perfect example of what lust looked like. For her she was a woman having wrongful relationships with the man that they were suppose to treat like a complete stranger, but was treated like one of the family. The way of acting between the generations is always different, this generation right now is more liberal than our grandparents generation and the trend of this tells us that the newer the generation the more liberty they demand.