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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: express to observant Europeans the great truth that, though Miss Daisy
Miller was a young American lady, her behavior was not representative--
was regarded by her compatriots as abnormal. Winterbourne wondered
how she felt about all the cold shoulders that were turned toward her,
and sometimes it annoyed him to suspect that she did not feel at all.
He said to himself that she was too light and childish, too uncultivated
and unreasoning, too provincial, to have reflected upon her ostracism,
or even to have perceived it. Then at other moments he believed that she
carried about in her elegant and irresponsible little organism a defiant,
passionate, perfectly observant consciousness of the impression she produced.
He asked himself whether Daisy's defiance came from the consciousness
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