Daisy Miller

I know this blog has been incredibly boring lately, but things should get very exciting soon! Stay tuned....

I happened to read Daisy Miller (Henry James) last night and upon reflection, I couldn't help but compare the title character to Britney Spears. We are Winterbourne and "society." Collectively and individually we should, as The Egalitarian Bookworm urges, look to ourselves and take some responsibility for telling a teenage Britney: If you're sexy enough, we'll buy your records. If you're controversial enough, we'll buy magazines that feature you. But don't get too sexy or too controversial (or too "fat") or you will suffer the consequences.

Comments

[katy]

I just finished reading Daisy Miller for my American Lit course and was pretty ambivalent about it; but you're so right with the comparison to modern celebrity.