“Daisy Miller: A Study” by Henry James, the story of an American girl in Europe named Daisy Miller, is told by an unknown narrator who only has access to thoughts of the main character Winterbourne. The story centers on Daisy Miller and her "abnormal behavior" as the object of Winterbourne's study. The story's limited third-person omniscient narration and the way Daisy Miller is portrayed in Winterbourne's thoughts make her character not only the subject of Winterbourne's study in the story, but also an object in the overall narrative. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay In the story, Winterbourne has a hobby of studying women. Towards the beginning of the story it is said that he went to Geneva to “study” and suggests that he was also there to be with an older foreign lady (1502). When Winterbourne meets Daisy Miller for the first time, he picks up numerous details about her and immediately tries to analyze her: If he looked away when he spoke to her, and did not seem to particularly hear it, this was simply his habit, his manner. . . He had a great taste for female beauty; he was devoted to observation and analysis; and regarding the face of this young lady he made several observations. It wasn't bland at all, but it wasn't exactly expressive; and although it was extremely delicate, Winterbourne mentally accused it – very indulgently – of lack of polish. (1504)In this paragraph, Winterbourne describes Daisy as an object. Analyze every aspect of his face and try to analyze his character through his appearance and expressions, as one would do when studying something non-human. He decides on his own not to offend her and that if she seems indifferent to him it is because of her mannerisms. This foreshadows how Daisy is portrayed in the rest of the story. She is constantly analyzed and judged through the lens of Winterbourne's judgments based on her appearance, mannerisms, and behaviors. He also decides that her face has a “lack of polish”: this type of judgment objectifies her as something that doesn't quite live up to his ideal of perfection regarding female beauty. Throughout the narrative, she is judged through someone else's perspective. Winterbourne constantly works to better understand Daisy throughout the story as new events unfold. When Daisy begins to flirt with Giovanelli, Winterbourne tries again: and then returns to the question of whether she was really a good girl. Would a good girl – even assuming she's a little American coquette – meet up with a supposedly low-class foreigner? …It was impossible to consider her a perfectly well-behaved young lady; she lacked a certain indispensable delicacy. It would therefore be much simpler to be able to treat her as the object of one of those feelings that novelists call “lawless passions”. (1524)Once again, Winterbourne analyzes Daisy with the hope of being able to classify her with a certain label. So far he's decided she's a "little American flirt" and is grappling with whether or not she's a "good girl." She uses a set of social norms to come to the conclusion that she is not a "well-behaved young woman" because she is not delicate. He also directly states that it would simplify his analysis to be able to see her simply as a "lawless object of passion." Winterbourne wants to see her as an object for the sake of simplicity: she is not yet given a voice and we have no access to her thoughts, which deprives us of her rebuttal to Winterbourne's claims that she is a flirtatious and indelicate "lawless object of passion" .., 2003.