Henry Jamse
Henry James writings, particularly ‘The Portrait of a Lady’I read this book out of interest for another Henry James piece, liking Daisy Miller so much. I found that this book, as in Daisy Miller, has a female point of interest throughout. Isabel Archer is a young American girl brought to Europe after her father has died in America. Isabel is an independent girl, easily noticed by many others in her circle. I felt that Isabel was a woman in her time, in that she took notice of things that she wouldn’t have without certain without the opportunities she was given. In America she would have see and done other things, but in Europe she saw so much opportunity. I like the carefree attitude she had, but with the regard for her elders and common courtesy. The example in the book about being a proper young lady when it was not looked at very well that she stay up ‘alone’ with her cousin and another young man. She had asked her aunt to help her and tell her when she is doing, or about to do something saw as improper. I admired that. I think nowadays young women would revolt against proper if it meant something they did not wish to do. Henry James’ writing was interesting to me in that
What’s else interesting in the reading of ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ is that Isabel fell to something she would have been totally against if she had known the creature from another experience. Merle, only that she is a widow and a friend of Mrs. The best is that all while the book the reader is told that Pansy’s mother has died and that she was raised by Mr. The man she married was awful, and yet she married him with the idea that she was happy and that he was wonderful. Osmond her entire life along with the convent. The idea of being arranged to marry someone is also true in this piece. That is a large piece of the world I do not understand. I think it was crucial to the development of society that is today and to the women’s movements of the past, present and future. I find it interesting it is not until almost the very end of the book that we find out that Pansy is the daughter of Mrs. Sometimes I wish that I’d been born back in those times, even if I don’t believe in some of the behavior. Until that day, she knows she has made a terrible decision and will live with it, but does not tell anyone about it nor recognize the changes she has gone through in her journey. Osmond off like she should have a long time ago. Osmond to make him suffer the way Isabel has.
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