1.	Úvod – historické pozadí a izolacionismus

2.	Američané v Evropě – Daisy, Frederick Winterbourne a paní Costellová

3.	Noví Američané – Randolph Miller

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Daisy

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Evropané

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Koloseum

7.	Američané a Američané žijící v Evropě –vztah Daisy a Winterbourna

" On December 2, 1823, during his speech to Congress, the American president James Monroe formulated a statement called the Monroe Doctrine. The aim was to prevent the Great Powers of Europe from intervening into affairs of the United States. This policy of the so-called “isolationism” resulted in a break between the New and the Old World. The break was not only political but cultural and moral as well for the values of the first American settlers based on Puritan faith were closer to the European cultural background than the principles acknowledged by the new social class of the so-called “nouveaux riches”. In his work Henry James, one of the American expatriate writers, was exploring the differences between the Europeans and the Americans on the European continent. In the following lines, I would like to examine the question of the conflict of values within the American society in one of the James’s novella Daisy Miller (1878).
The story of Daisy Miller, a young American girl coming from a rich background, who travels with her family throughout Europe, presents us basically three kinds of characters with regard to their cultural background and the way they perceive the code of social behavior. Firstly, we encounter American expatriates who can be depicted as bearers of old Puritan values. They are characterized by the fact that they became fully integrated into the European culture and they accept its strict moral code. The integration was successful to the extent that when one of the protagonists Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a Swiss hotel in Vevey for the first time, she almost refuses to consider him as an American: “She asked him if he was a ‘real American’; she wouldn’t have taken him for one; he seemed more like a German – this was said after a little hesitation, especially when he spoke.”(James, Henry, Daisy Miller, 53). The young man who had been settled down in Europe since his infancy is not only close to Puritanism by his residence which is in Geneva, the former centre of Calvinism, but by his temperament. After all, his name means literally “a bearer of winter”, thus someone who is guided by order, strong discipline and a certain reservedness. His aunt, Mrs.Costello is even a more polarized figure when it comes to attachment to morality and ethics. The strict ascetic lady does not approve the courtship of her nephew to Daisy and thinks that all the Miller family are extremely vulgar. Another American expatriate Mrs.Walker is, as her name already incites, an active person who tries to save Daisy’s reputation by chasing her in a carriage during one of the Daisy’s promenade with an Italian Mr.Giovanelli. Mrs. Walker is also a protector of Puritan morality and represents conformity with the European environment...."

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