In this short story by Henry James, a young man from America named Winterbourne meets a beautiful and wealthy American girl named Daisy Miller in a hotel in Switzerland.  Winterbourne falls in love with Daisy but she is too busy with her rich suitors to bother with him.  One suitor, Mr. Giovanelli, in particular catches her attention and she begins seeing him regularly.  A few days after Winterbourne finds Daisy and Mr. Giovanelli together in the Coliseum, Daisy dies from an illness.  Winterbourne can be considered the narrator of the story because the reader sees and experiences everything through his eyes and his perspective.  The tone of this particular story is flirtatious but also somber; Daisy flirts with every man she sees so that the attention will always be on her but in the end she dies and that is saddening.  This story addresses the ontological questions “what is love, and what is beauty?”