![]() Winterbourne's relatives, such as his aunt, attempt to prohibit interaction with Daisy because her behavior deviates from this template. Geneva, where Winterbourne develops his beliefs of male-female relations, has its own standards for women's behaviors that include abiding by propriety and submissiveness. For example, Winterbourne's familial, social, and geographical circumstances construct a patriarchal distribution of information. I argue that this complex narrative structure transparently divulges pre-established patriarchal notions that affect Winterbourne's perceptions of Daisy, thus executing a social critique. Winterbourne's subjectivity being relayed through another character-narrator portrays Winterbourne's perceptions without explicitly analyzing his behavior. Yet Winterbourne is not technically the narrator his thoughts are disclosed by an unknown character in the story some time after the story occurs. The novella does not provide objective presentations of the characters instead, the narrative presents a subjective depiction, mostly of Daisy Miller, according to the inner thoughts of only one character, Frederick Winterbourne. This paper examines patriarchal perception in Henry James' novella Daisy Miller.
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