Tuesday, December 18, 2007

All those in favor of hating Isabella say I..

After reading Austen's Northanger Abbey, part of me couldn't help but feel as though the ending of the novel was rushed and cut straight through to the end. I yearned to find outmore about Eleanor and how she finally found the strength to go against her fathers words and marry. How did this suddenly come to be? Of all the heroine's we have read this semester Catherine is definitely my favorite! She is the typeof character that you can relate yourself to; she's depicted in a manner in which both her flaws and her intelligence identify who she is. Sadly, one of her flaws is attaching herself to Isabella, her "bestfriend". All along Isabella drops hints that she is deceiving and is simply going after James, but after reading the novel it seems to me that Catherine began to talk to Eleanor because of her attraction to Henry. Luckily they became the best of friends and held a healthy relationship... but Isabella onthe other hand; what a snob! Not only does she break of her engagement to her bestfriends brother, but she has the nerve of writing Catherine a letter asking her to speak to James and fix everything. Isabella represents one word -> DRAMA

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