Our creative project reinterprets Henry James’s classic novella Daisy Miller (1878). We step into the shoes of the Roman inspectors in 1878, taking on the mission to investigate the sudden demise of Miss Annie P. Miller. Inside the story, officially Daisy Miller died of Roman Fever. But what if she, in fact, died not merely of the biological virus, but of a hidden and unspoken social murder? To answer this question, our project is going to trace back the time and uncover the truth that the society intended to ignore or blot out.
To build this realistic investigation, we organized this case file based on the textual details from the book, and we also hand-drew the characters and physical evidence to restore their most authentic appearances. Through the analysis of forensic examinations, physical evidence logs, and witness interrogation statements, we will progressively prove that contracting the Roman Fever was merely a surface. The severe social ostracism and class exclusion from the American expat community were indeed the fatal weapons that soundlessly killed the innocent girl.