Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) was an American writer, philosopher, poet, abolitionist, tax resister, development critic, historian, leading transcendentalist, and abolitionist. His name is almost means nature because he has devoted his entire life into observing and studying nature and written many literary works recording his ideas on man-nature relationship. Rereading his works now helps us to deal with the urgent and serious natural crisis.
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella about an American girl by Henry James; This paper, based on the textual analysis of the novel is an effort to study the tragic fate of heroine and its reason through a comparative study of it. Two common reasons of the tragic destiny will be discussed in the paper: one, the oppressive environment; the other, the hero's inaction.
