The Sick and the Well: Playing at Life in "Daisy Miller"

by Janet Tassel (June 2015)

In a letter to Edith Wharton, James once wrote:

Only sit tight yourself and go through the movements of life. That keeps up your connection with life—I mean of the immediate and apparent life, behind which, all the while, the deeper and darker and unapparent, in which things really happen to us, learns under that hygiene, to stay in its place.

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Janet Tassel is a writer in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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