... . Ralph is perhaps the best example, as he has both a pleasant, honest personality, yet with the detachment from the text that makes him almost an omnipotent narrator. It often appears as if we perceive things through Ralph's eyes, or more realistically, James". His illness makes him view the events from an oblique point of view, but with an attachment to Isabel that ... a stark contrast to the sinister manner in which Warburton and Osmond are portrayed. There is the suggestion of the iniquity of the European men in the novel, perhaps comparable to James" other work "Daisy Miller", in wh...

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