Daisy_Miller_&_Huck_Finn-_American_Adventures

Daisy Miller & Huck Finn- American Adventures NOSEWAKS@aOl.com March 20, 2002 DAISY MILLER AND HUCK FINN-AMERICAN ADVENTURERS After reading the two American classics “Daisy Miller” by Henry James, and “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, I thought about the messages these authors were saying about their societies. Both authors lived at a time when very influential things were happening in their worlds. The Civil War, and the ceaseless turmoil between social classes. Twain and James both wrote these two stories around the same period. Like everyone, they were influenced by their surroundings and personal experiences. Although they were both very different people with completely different backgrounds, they both managed to have leading characters that had the common problem of not fitting in their societies. Although James’ Daisy Miller and Twain’s Huck had a common problem, they both had very different ways of coping with it. They both had different strategies of living in an environment they didn’t completely control. Henry James had the very plain Miller family traveling throughout Europe at a time when many people in the world were immigrating to the Unites States. Her family was wealthy enough to pay huck, society, daisy, both, didn’t, people, jim, winterbourne, about, very, james, he’s, different, because, two, time, things, own, miller, europe, doesn’t, character, twain, societies, one, new, makes, first, family, conflict, clear, young, while, wanted, thought, strategies, same, right, mrs, men, life, learn, lady, know, it’s, huck’s, homes, help, father, daisy’s