Paper 1 Outline

Question: Is the novel successfully training the reader?

Intro:
Winterborne as narrator/who we get information from = decoder
Winterborne torn between whether he should be policing Daisy or not
DA Miller argues that we need a Winterborne in the novel so we can become
Winterborne in our daily lives
Winterborne punished at the end of the novel because he doesnt get what he
wanted from Daisy?
THESIS: D.A. Miller argues that Henry James filters information through
Winterborne in Daisy Miller in order to train the reader to be a disciplinary agent;
however, since Winterborne is ultimately punished, the novel doesnt successfully
serve as a form of social control.

Body Paragraphs

Millers hypothesis serves as a justification for Winterbornes role in the narrative.

so I will imply the complementary claim that the novels critical relation to
society, much advertised in the novel and its literary criticism, masks the extent to
which modern social organization has made even scandal a systematic function
of its routine self-maintenance (Miller xii).
o novels critical relation to society = why the novel exists
o masks the extent to which = has a duel purpose
in/secretely/facelessly/insidiously
o modern social organization has made even scandal a systematic function
of its routine self-maintenance = modern day novels take scandals as part
of their plot to show readers what not to do/ are a way of policing activity
by showing this is what the norm is
Winterborne is the decoder of Daisys actions
He thought it very possible that Master Randolphs sister was a coquette; he was
sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage
there was no mockery, no irony (James 8).
o Winterborne trying to decode Daisy
o How we should all be looking at people around us?

Miller describes the Panopticon, which brings forth the idea that for someone to be
policed, they just need to think that people are constantly monitoring their behavior.
Panopticon = a way of policing that doesnt require known police
The Panopticon where it matters less that the inmates may at any moment be
watched than that they know this, only begins to suggest the extent to which
disciplinary order relies on a subjectivity that, through a rich array of spiritual
management techniques, it compels to endless self-examination (Miller 18).
 Daisy is not subject to the Panopticon, but is still operating in an environment
where everyone is monitoring her.
Winterborne, again, serves as our decoder her as he tries to figure out whether
Daisy is acting inappropriately or not:
o Cite carriage scene where Mrs. Walker is trying to save Daisys reputation
and get Daisy to not walk around Rome with two men

D.A. Miller argues that novels function as a form of social control.

I have been implying, of course, that discipline provides the novel with its
essential content (Miller 18).
On the side of perspicacity, Balzacs omniscient narration assumes a fully
panoptic view of the world it places under surveillance. Nothing worth knowing
escapes its notation, and its complete knowledge includes the knowledge that it is
always right (Miller 23).
the novel shows disciplinary power to inhere in the very resistance to it (Miller
27).
o Novel shows disciplinary power = the narrative of the novel shows people
being discipline or discipline working on the characters
o To inhere = to exist within/to be placed in
o The very resistance to it = in trying to operate outside the norm
o AKA: novels show what is acceptable by showing what is unacceptable

Winterborne is constantly trying to decode Daisy and decide whether her behavior is
appropriate; however, since he is punished at the end for his unsuccessful study, he is
not a good template for readers to become their own disciplinary agents.
Cite coliseum scene where Winterborne finally has Daisy figured out and scene
where Daisy said she was never engaged before her death
o Winterborne punished by Daisys death because he wasnt able to figure
her out?
Punished by Daisys death because he didnt get what he wanted
out of his study
Or not punished because he went back to Geneva to his older lady
friend
o Daisy died at the end of the novel in order to show Winterborne/the
readers that he was wrong in his study of her?
or maybe because she wasnt following the rules and policing
people is a necessary part of life (to keep you alive!)

Conclusion goes here!