Miss Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller walks along a sidewalk by a local lake. She is accompanied by not only one, but two young men on each arm. Her lovely blonde hair is flowing in the wind while she smirks at the third man walking past her and her ‘friends’. There is no doubt that she is beautiful, and along with her two companions, she knows it.
The young American man on her right is infatuated with the girl he is walking with. He wants her and looks as though he would drop anything to be her one and only love. She sees him differently, however. Her body language states that he is her back up. Her go to guy if every other man leaves her. He is only around because he is captivated with this young woman and she fully takes advantage of the fact that he is hanging on to that thread of the fact that she could be his some day.
On her left rides a sultry Italian man. He is her love, as it is seen in her eyes. This man is hers, in a sense. And because of her beauty and charm, it is okay with him that he is not her only want. She wants more. She has captivated this young Italian in a way no one else has, so it seems. Everyone is lovesick over Miss Daisy Miller.
These two men are infatuated with the young, flirtatious Daisy, and every outsider agrees. It is seen to all that this young woman is a flirt and tease. An object of desire is she, that everyone would like to have, but cannot. This situation is what is so interesting and appealing to men, and appalling to those who look in from the outside. However, we all are sure to look in on the state of affairs.
This is my painting of Daisy Miller. And if there really was a work of art that told her story, one would have no problem distinguishing the lines that were read in the book. This flirt who would stop at nothing to have attention, even with people telling her what she is doing is indecent. After all, like ‘American Gothic”, we are fascinated with the unordinary things of the world.