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According to Henry James' viewpoint, what is the conflict between the American personalities and European personalities?
James's admiration for European culture led him to a lifelong interest in the conflict of the American and European personalities. He saw that Europeans were often regarded as overrefined, degenerate, and artificial by Americans,and that Americans were considered naive, vulgar, and ignorant by many Europeans. The misunderstanding caused personality conflicts. The typical American in James* novel is fresh, enthusiastic, not perhaps as cultured as he might be,but eager to learn,and basically "good” in spite of his disregard of the outworn conventions and social graces of Europe. The European, on the other hand, is highly cultivated, urban, sometimes boring, but always correct. He was,however, sometimes unprincipled. The Americans often appeared to stand for morality, the Europeans for manners. (p495)
