To juxtapose Eleanor’s engagement, the narrator recalls the main heroine Catherine’s struggles in her own courtship: “That this was the very gentleman whose negligent servant left behind him that collection of washing-bills, resulting from a long visit at Northanger, by which my heroine was involved in one of her most alarming adventures” (239). Although Catherine’s negative experience at Northanger Abbey is more troublesome than Eleanor’s courtship, the negative is expressed by the narrator that her troubles were something essentially positive: an adventure which leads to her ultimate lesson. Through Catherine’s perseverance in the isolation of Northanger Abbey, and her ability to overcome the rigidity and extreme order of the place, she learns the differences in social spheres. Further, in her perseverance in Northanger as opposed to the freedom and lack of social regulation in Bath, and Catherine’s education in learning how to read both
To juxtapose Eleanor’s engagement, the narrator recalls the main heroine Catherine’s struggles in her own courtship: “That this was the very gentleman whose negligent servant left behind him that collection of washing-bills, resulting from a long visit at Northanger, by which my heroine was involved in one of her most alarming adventures” (239). Although Catherine’s negative experience at Northanger Abbey is more troublesome than Eleanor’s courtship, the negative is expressed by the narrator that her troubles were something essentially positive: an adventure which leads to her ultimate lesson. Through Catherine’s perseverance in the isolation of Northanger Abbey, and her ability to overcome the rigidity and extreme order of the place, she learns the differences in social spheres. Further, in her perseverance in Northanger as opposed to the freedom and lack of social regulation in Bath, and Catherine’s education in learning how to read both