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To Winterbourne, the young man who meets her in the garden of a hotel overlooking Lake Geneva and is immediaely captivated, Daisy presents an agonizing dilemma. She apparently thinks nothing of 'flirting with any man she could pick up', and although in public Winterbourne defends her as simply 'uncultivated', privately he hesitates. This indecision gives particular edge and poignancy to the novella, in which James portrays the sweetest of all his American princesses. 'Daisy is...the prototype of all those young American female tourists who continue to baffle their continental lovers,' according to the critic Leslie Fiedler. 'What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does...
