Jennifer Crumpler Tammy Frailly ENG 233 IN1 27 August 2013 Henry James-A Sophisticated Man Henry James

is described to be an American. He was born in New York on April 15, 1843. His Father was a very wealthy mature religious philosopher and his Mother was a homemaker. The women, like Jamess Mother would stay at home especially in that era. Jamess brother, one was a very influential philosopher and his sister a understanding observer and diarist. This family is the example of the American family. With their Father who started moving the family to Europe. James as a young children went to Europe, but most of his boyhood in New York. At the age of twelve his Father moved the children to Continent. His Father wanted the children to have a rich sensuous education, and during the next four years, with stays in England, Switzerland, and France, they were taken to galleries, libraries, museums, and (of special interest to James) theaters (417). This is the characteristics of the American because you learn and educate even if the traveling and living in Europe. With being exposed to libraries, museums, and theaters his family is the typical American family. Having a illiterate Father growing up, being reared in the United States all my life and not being exposed to anything educational is hard enough to only dream of the American character. And what grander things in this country and James was traveling the world and having those experiences. His writings, the product of more than half a century as a publishing author, include tales, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, criticism, travel pieces, letters, reviews, and biographies-altogether perhaps as many as one hundred volumes, a prodigious output

even by late nineteenth-century standards. The recognition of his importance as well as his wide influence as novelist and critic increased in the years between the world wars, when American literary taste reached a new level of sophistication. Since that time James has been frimly established as one of the Americans greatedt novelists and critics, a subtle psychological realist and an unsurpassed literary stylist (417). James study with a reason and he wanted to master the Europeans. He did not want to marry, so he could spend his closeness with his family. What a very diverse man, he could go from American to European. James wrote a multitude of books, and the Daisy Miller is portrayed to be the new American girl, brought him wide spread popularity (418). The logistics of the story is the native girl is neither for Europeans or Americans, but one that is tested by cultural displacement (418). Miller was who she is and James could not see that. He was trying to have a protagonist in Millers character. Maybe James was not seeing it because he was very selfish and was caught up in a class position. As Winterbourne spent most of his life in America Calvinism, as a child, he went to school and college. He tried to see his aunt in Europe and it is not like America, she was reluctant. There were a few things to learn. As the young boy bit into the lump of sugar, Winterbourne said take care you dont hurt your teeth. But, the little boy did not have any teeth. And Winterbourne was describing in America they would not fall out. The little boy was saying that American boys were the best little boys.Winterbournes affirmative reply-American mew are the best, he declared (423). The American way of talking to anyone that cross your path. James was trying to point out Miller and Winterbourne, even though you here in America does not always mean we are all the same.

Work Cited Henry James 1843-1916. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Eighth edition, Volume C: 1865-1914. Nina Baym and Robert S.Levine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2012. 24-67. Print. Daisy Miller: A Study. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Eighth edition,

Volume C: 1865-1914. Nina Baym and Robert S.Levine. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2012. 24-67. Print.