Questions and Answers: Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.
JAMES TOOK GREAT INTEREST IN INTERNATIONAL THEMES-----THE CLASHES BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT CULTURES AND THE EMOTIONAL AND MORAL PROBLEMS OF AMERICANS IN EUROPE, OR EUROPEANS IN AMERICA IN HIS FIRST PERIOD.
HE FOCUSES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH . HIS FICTIONAL WORLD IS CONCERNED MORE WITH THE INNER LIFE OF HUMAN BEINGS----THIS EMPHASIS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND ON THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS PROVES TO BE A BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN NOVEL WRITING.
THE WORKS: THE AMERICAN, DAISY MILLER, THE EUROPEANS, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY  
