book review

The work implicitly shows that Daisy's pure, open, free and uninhibited character is more desirable than the European social fashion, which is elegant and generous in appearance and banal and narrow in essence. The novel USES an "inner point of view" to observe and judge the whole event through the eyes of winterbourne, the fictional character. Winterbourne, who was influenced by both European civilization and partly admired Daisy, constantly revised his position and viewpoint and tried to maintain his "conscience" and insight under the influence of both. This determines that his observation and judgment have a certain "detached" and "objective" value, so as to make the whole story believable and lasting.