What Was Winterbourne's Misperceptions About Daisy?

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There are two parts of Winterbourne’s misperceptions about Daisy that are colored by his expatriate status. Winterbourne had lived in Geneva, in Switzerland, most of his life for he was brought to Europe when he was about nine years old. The first part was due to the ambiguity about his entire life there; study, work and social life and since we don’t know his background, we can’t tell what his motivations are for taking the actions he took towards Daisy. The narrator gave us a glimpse about Winterbourne’s life through his friends “when his friends spoke of him, they usually said that he was at Geneva, ‘studying.’ When his enemies spoke of him they said- but, after all, he had no enemies; he was an extremely amiable fellow, and universally