Catherine Morland grew with time on her lengthy journey to self-discovery in Jane Austen's classic tale Northanger Abbey, by learning valuable lessons about society, reality as oppose to imagination, and herself. ... vain coquette'", (Austen, 142) Isabella, who writes to our heroine in hope of rekindling their once intimate relationship. ... Austen foretells that Catherine is in actuality learning a lesson from this mediocre and simplistic incident by saying: "Could not the adventure of the chest have taught her wisdom" (Austen, 111), implying that if there had not been a message to...

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