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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 ...
Catherine, who never sees through hypocrisy no matter how poorly disguised, now thinks she has uncovered the truth about a hardened criminal. Active Themes. The next day, while the General takes his morning walk, Catherine asks Eleanor to show her Mrs. Tilney ’s room. First, they go to look at Mrs. Tilney’s portrait, which surprises ...
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Eleanor is eager to have a sympathetic listener and female companion, but Catherine is distracted by her growing certainty that she has uncovered a villain in General Tilney. Eleanor does not realize it, but Catherine wishes to see Mrs. Tilney’s room because she hopes to investigate and uncover proof of foul play by the General.
Catherine responds that Mr. Allen's parlour is not half the size of the General's, which pleases him. That night, a violent storms strikes the Abbey, causing creaks and groans that frighten Catherine. She discovers an odd cabinet at one end of her room and, intensely curious, opens all the drawers. In the story Henry told, Catherine discovered ...
Luckily, Miss Tilney only mentions that the chest has been in her family for many generations, and the two young ladies proceed to dinner. The Tilneys and Catherine dine in a large, well-appointed room, and General Tilney is delighted when Catherine tells him that Mr. Allen’s dining room is only half as big.
She begins to view everything the General does as more evidence of his troubled conscience. She even imagines that Mrs. Tilney is still alive, locked somewhere in the basement of the Abbey. She decides to stay awake until midnight to see if Mr. Tilney goes down to the dungeon where Catherine suspects he is keeping his wife.
When she senses that no one is in the hallway, she sneaks out and climbs the stairs to Mrs. Tilney’s room. She advances without meeting anyone and slips into the room. This room is nothing like ...
