Frederick Winterbourne

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Frederick Winterbourne is the Europeanized American expatriate protagonist of Henry James's novella "Daisy Miller," whose conflicted attitudes toward innocence, propriety, and social convention drive the story's central tension.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American expatriate
Henry James character
fictional character
literary character
protagonist
appearsIn Daisy Miller
associatedWithAuthor Henry James
authorNationalityOfWork American
centralConflict struggle between personal desire and social convention
tension between innocence and propriety
characterTrait Europeanized in manners and outlook
conflicted about social conventions
judgmental
observant
self-conscious
socially conservative
createdBy Henry James
educationLocation Geneva
emotionalAttitudeToward Daisy Miller
firstAppearance Daisy Miller
surface form: "Daisy Miller" (1878)
gender male
genreOfWork novella
internalConflict attraction to Daisy versus fear of social censure
languageOfWork English
literaryFunction focalizer of the narrative in "Daisy Miller"
literaryMovement realism
literaryPeriod 19th-century literature
medium prose fiction
moralArc fails to fully understand Daisy Miller
narrativePerspective third-person limited centered on Winterbourne
narrativeRole observer of Daisy Miller's behavior
nationality American
occupation student
publicationContext character in an 1878 novella
relationshipTo Daisy Miller
residence Geneva
roleInWork protagonist of "Daisy Miller"
settingOfActivity Rome
Vevey
symbolizes American abroad shaped by European society
conflict between New World innocence and Old World sophistication
themeInvolvement American versus European values
innocence versus experience
social judgment

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Daisy Miller mainCharacter Frederick Winterbourne
Daisy Miller narrator Frederick Winterbourne