Catherine Morland In Jane Austen's Chapter 1 From Northanger Abbey

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The excerpt of “Chapter 1 from Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen, introduces the reader to the protagonist of the novel, Catherine Morland. Born in the rural town of Fullerton in England, with a big family of modest income, Catherine is presented as an unremarkable, plain-looking child that was never interested enough to be proficient at whatsoever. Although all of her characteristics diverge from what an heroine profile should be, the author continually emphasizes that she would become one; this being the main topic. At the age of ten, Jane Asuten describes the girl’s demeanor as “noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness, and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house" (27). As she enters

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