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[M. A. Correia]

Of course James suffered from that very troublesome position of a man without a proper culture. He was neither here - Europe - nor there - United States - wanting to mingle what was becoming very fast an American culture with the older - even if not wiser - European culture. His American women are a mirror image of this status: a blend of American boldness and European constraint unable to assume their new world nature to the fullest or to live in the sinews of an old world cosmopolitan culture with centuries of denial to women's humanity and, consequently, their clever adaptation to a life in the twilight of - literally - mankind. Therefore, Isabel Osmond, therefore daisy Miller, just to mention two.