Comparing The House of Mirth and Daisy Miller :: Henry James, Edith Wharton

Edith Whartons The House of Mirth mainly describes the need of a woman to be married to a wealthy man and how she attempts to obtain the most appropriate suitor. The House of Mirth also observes the tedious forcible and manpowertal decline of a young woman who, because of her own weakness and indecisiveness, f totallys from social distinction into poverty and griminess. The spirit level presents a criminal measure of reality and ends sort of sadly. Instead of marrying and living happily, Lily weakens slowly and commits suicide, maybe unintentionally, as a guidance of evading a lower-class humanity in which her upper-class needs cannot survive. Lilys life is the exact opposite of dignity or beauty she had many chances to live the kind of life she dreamed of, only if lost it all. Similarly, Henry James Daisy Miller, is a rich, young, American girl from bare-ass York, traveling around Europe with her mother and younger brother. Daisy is a complex combination of traits. She is feisty, independent, and well intentioned, yet she is also petty, ignorant, and unsophisticated. Daisy is also an irritating flirt. She has no public elegance or informal gifts, such as appeal, humor, and a talent for banter. Also she is primarily interested only in influencing men and making herself the hub of interest. Throughout the story, Winterbourne, the love interest of Daisy, is fixated over the issue of whether Daisy is naive, moreover her behavior by no means reveals whether she is or isnt. Winterbourne accepts that Daisy is crude plainly wonders whether she is innocent. Frequently, Daisy seems less than innocent since Winterbourne did catch her with another man late at night at the Coliseum, which results in her death from malaria. Overall, it is the way in which Daisy embodies all the different forms of innocence that results in her demise.While the telling of the story is quite similar, The House of Mirth is different in the sense that all that personas form of t hinking is revealed to the reader. Henry James primarily portrays the story of Winterbourne and the affect that Daisy has on him. He does describe Daisy in great particular yet he fails to give any indication of why she acts the way she does. One can only ponder over ideas of how she thinks and her reasoning slowly what she does in certain events. It is obvious that Daisy is ignorant to her inappropriate behavior but it is unclear if this is an act or if she is really unaware that she is acting incorrectly.