impractical plot of Pamela

Pamela is a story about a girl because this is a disadvantage in and of itself. The many authorities she is subject to, though some coincide with her own are all supposed to be more credible than this poor, young girl, Pamela.
I think it was the intention of Richardson to model a glistening example of the steps that would secure the road to marital success (within gender roles that men and women had to contend with at that time.) I would have applauded Richardson if he exploded just one of those gender roles but I don't think he did. Pamela was a paragon of beauty, and forgiveness and Mr. B was controlling and infinitely powerful. When he failed at controlling Pamela, he adapted his technique and eventually succeeded. He laid down the law when she became his wife. This novel fosters a bond between man and woman that I can't condone; One where the woman is entirely occupied with righting wrongs done by her man and not seeing his faults or confronting him with them (yet, they are miraculously dissappearing by the novel's end anyway).