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Henry tells Mrs. Morland that the reason for his arrival is to make sure that Catherine made it home all right. Henry suggests that he pay a visit to the Allens, and Catherine joins him. On the walk to the Allens' house, he proposes to her, and she accepts.
The next morning, Henry (Mr. Tilney), Eleanor (Miss Tilney), and Catherine take their country walk. Catherine comments that a cliff they see reminds her of the south of France. A bit surprised, Henry asks if she has been to France. Catherine explains that it reminds her of the cliffs described in the Mysteries of Udolpho, but says she presumes ...
Volume 2, Chapter 15. Northanger Abbey: Volume 2, Chapter 16 Summary & Analysis. Next. Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. Mr. Morland and Mrs. Morland are shocked to be asked for Catherine ’s hand in marriage, since it had never occurred to them that she was in love with Mr. Tilney.
Catherine's paranoid fantasy about Mrs. Tilney's murder is amusing and disturbing. Her theories are worrisome; at least in the Gothic novels she reads, there really are bad things going on. In Catherine's world, the bad things she imagines do not really exist. Northanger Abbey does not have a Gothic novel's terrible people, acts of violence and ...
This kind of trial often occurs in the life of a heroine, observes the Narrator. After ten minutes, Catherine sees Mr. Tilney across the room, but he does not see her. Mr. Tilney is talking to a young woman, but Catherine does not assume him to be married, throwing away a chance at falling into despair. She assumes this woman must be his sister ...
Northanger Abbey. Chapter 31. Mr. and Mrs. Morland's surprise on being applied to by Mr. Tilney for their consent to his marrying their daughter was, for a few minutes, considerable, it having never entered their heads to suspect an attachment on either side; but as nothing, after all, could be more natural than Catherine's being beloved, they ...
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After completing two dances with John, Catherine returns to find that Mr. Tilney is dancing with someone else. So she joins in a conversation with Mr. Tilney’s sister. Catherine finds that this ...
