Daisy Miller Foreshadowing Essay

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Regan Garey 3-17-15 American Lit-230B Elements of Foreshadowing in Daisy Miller and The Beast in the Jungle In Henry James’ stories Daisy Miller and The Beast in the Jungle, foreshadowing is evident. Both stories show you hints and clues to point you towards a final conclusion. I will point to some specific examples of this in each story and explain why they are foreshadowing. Daisy Miller is a very complex story. Daisy Miller, an American girl who is traveling through Europe, is an outsider who is unfamiliar with the customs of Europe. She makes many mistakes when interacting with others, and comes into contact with Winterbourne, a young man that she gets to know. This story has a very sad and complex ending to it, but we are able to find …show more content…

Daisy wants to go see the Pincio, but before she goes to meet Giovanelli, Mrs. Walker warns her that she “doesn’t think that it’s safe” (442). Mrs. Miller then joins in, and agrees that she shouldn’t go, stating that Daisy will “get the fever as sure as she lives” (442). Throughout the story, Daisy had problems listening to those that should be her superiors. By not listening to them, she puts herself in harms way. Her pride is too big, and eventually it leads to her death. Even though at this point she doesn’t catch the fever, we know that it’s out there, and are under the impression that she has a good chance of catching it if she continues to go out when she knows that she shouldn’t. She and Giovanelli go out on the town a few times, and one evening she decides to go to the Colosseum with him. The Colosseum is known as a place of martyrs. Winterbourne, waking by, overhears Daisy saying that, “he looks at us as one of the old lions or tigers may have looked at the Christian martyrs!” (456). A martyr is someone or something that dies for a reason. Daisy died to prove a moral lesson to those of us reading the story, and this is a point where we see what is going to happen to …show more content…

John only spent time with May, and while together he seemed somewhat happy. However, they never married. To Marcher, marriage meant that he would have to care for another person more than he cared for himself. John just couldn’t let go of himself in order to care and love for someone else. In the end, we see that if he and May had been together, things would’ve been fine because Marcher is his own beast. May could’ve “saved” him. May says to Marcher, “What saves us, you know, is that we answer so completely to so usual an appearance: that of the man and women whose friendship has become such a daily habit” (487). In her eyes, what saves them is that they have each other. However, we know that they both are growing older and won’t be here on Earth for forever. In the end, we know that he will end up

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