Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in Jun-July 1879. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. This short story serves as both a psychological description of the mind of a young woman, and an analysis of the traditional views of a society where she is a clear outsider. Henry James uses Daisy's story to discuss what he thinks Europeans and Americans believe about each other, and more generally the prejudices common in any culture. The names of the characters are also symbolic. Daisy is a flower in full bloom, without inhibitions and in the springtime of her life. Daisy contrasts sharply with Winterbourne. Flowers die in winter and this is precisely what happens to Daisy, after catching the Roman Fever. As an objective analogue to this psychological reality, Daisy catches the very real Roman fever, the malaria that was endemic to many Roman neighborhoods in the 19th century.

在小说《戴西·米勒》中，詹姆斯打破常规，运用了限知视角的叙述方法。叙述者为故事中的一个角色，他始终以浓厚的兴趣关注事态的发展变化，但又不积极卷入事态，使故事更为客观真实，体现了詹姆斯对小说叙事理论深刻的研究。