Catherine Morland, with all her enthusiasm and her mistakes, her modest tenderness and right feeling, is a most captivating picture of a very young girl. How Does Jane Austen Direct Her Readers' Response To Her Heroine Throughout Northanger Abbey? Written by James Durrant Marilyn Butler, in her introduction to the novel, suggests that; "Northanger Abbey, ... from its first paragraph ... moves to characterise the naοve romantic private reader as a beginner; it flatters and shames her into becoming more ambitious. In this educative process Catherine the heroine shows the way." However, Catherine learns more in the course of the novel than simply realizing the naοvetι of her reading habits. We see Jane Austen's 'anti-heroine' grow up , fall in love, and, through various strong betrayals of her unquestioning trust, learn to view human nature from a m....

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