“The application of Daisy Miller in Modern society”

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The identity issue plays a very important role in Daisy Miller. She is somewhat excluded or criticized for the way in which she acts, when it’s really just her being herself. It’s not fair that people take the liberty to judge other people just because their attitudes or their social practices are different. This type of behavior occurs nowadays, and it’s a major cause of bullying which can lead to many problems in the people that are being bullied. The thing is that finding yourself and your identity is not an easy thing to do when society is organized into different cliques, and when the concept of sameness is applied. Once it’s applied, the exclusion begins, because people start to compare themselves to others, which always leads to trouble.   

In the novella, Daisy is going through this exact same process that I’m trying to explain right now. She is a young girl, and she’s in the process of discovering herself and what she wants to do with her life. Because she acts the way she does, she gets excluded and prejudiced by society, which is another problem that is reflected in modern society. You can also see that she’s discovering herself because she tries different experiences, and tries to meet new people. She meets Winterbourne, which becomes a good friend of hers, and she also meets Giovanelli which she also gets along with, and has a connection with.

People should not be so quick to judge, because they don’t understand what people may be going through in a particular time frame. I guess that society is just built that way, and humans are met to get into groups with the people that have things in common with them. It’s like people don’t even notice how cruel and sad it can be when a person is excluded.