We concluded our discussion of the Scarlet Letter by formulating an outline for an essay due in December wherein Olivia will analyze the impact of the 19th Century feminist writer ,Margaret Fuller, on the character of Hester Prynne in the novel. I discussed the importance of the type of literary scholarship this exercise requires in composing longer college papers .Next, I introduced the novella, "Daisy Miller" by Henry James . I reviewed the gilded age in America in the late 19th Century, and emphasized the correlation between social manners and and perceived morality in that era.. As a preview to the novel, I referenced that the question faced by the story's narrator is whether Daisy is an innocent ,oblivious to the impacts of her unacceptable social manners or is she truly a person of poor moral character. The novel opens in Vevey,Switzerland with the main characters visiting the famous Castle of Chillon,which is the subject of Lord Byron's poem. Accordingly, I provided instruction on Romanticism in poetry, rhyme ,meter and rhyme scheme followed by our reading and analyzing the poem. Olivia did a formidable job understanding ,analyzing ,and discussing the plight of the imprisoned narrator , as well as in recognizing theme, rhyme scheme and meter, and iambic tetrameter .As we proceed with the novel, we will discuss the relevance of the prisoner's plight and compare it to Daisy's, thereby explaining the author's purpose in including this scene in the story. For homework, I assigned reading the first chapter of the novel, and defining the vocabulary words listed for chapter one on the vocabulary sheet I distributed . The test on Scarlet Letter will be postponed until Thursday .