Answer:
Gossip affects and deforms the perspective of the reader on the character since those ideas are affected by personal biases or beliefs of the people saying them.
Step-by-step explanation:
In this book by Henry James, we get the story of Daisy Miller through the perspective of different people, except through her own words. Winterbourne is the main narrator, he is a man and is emotionally interested in Daisy Miller, this affects his perception and his descriptions tend to be biased by those emotions.