There is so much in JA that resonates with our own age and life experience that it constantly surprises me (though by now I should be used to it!)ageless JA
Posted by Kate on December 30, 1997 at 13:12:40:
There is so much in JA that resonates with our own age and life experience that it constantly surprises me (though by now I should be used to it!)
Some examples:
That fantastic description of the meeting between Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Allen:
"Their joy on this meeting was very great, as well it might have been since they had been contented to know nothing of each other for the last fifteen years"
which is so apt - the incredible insincerity of seeing someone you went to school with at a party and being incredibly friendly, because you don't know anyone else there....
Mrs Allen's habit of talking on and on without saying anything of any relevance to anything!
And in Chapter X, where Catherine is desperate for Henry to ask her to dance again and equally desperate to avoid the obnoxious John Thorpe:
"Every young lady may feel for my herione in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation. All have been... in danger from the pursuit from someone whom they wished to avoid; and all have been anxious for the attentions of someone whom they wished to please"
We may not go through this on the dance floor, but it would just as surely apply to waiting for a phone call.... ;-)
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