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The role of fiction
Jackie 2022-10-15 08:49:19
Catherine said to Miss Tierney: "My parents loved each other so much, even more than they loved us, even though they loved us deeply. I thought that was the case with all families, until I read the novel I knew it wasn't. "Catherine needs to read novels to know what an unhappy family is, but many of us have to go to novels to find a happy family and perfect love. Literary works can open our eyes to different tastes of life, some works can resonate with us, and some works can make us feel a little more sympathetic to others.
Extended Reading
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Henry Tilney: Now I must give you one smirk, then we can be rational again.
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Henry Tilney: Your imagination may be overactive, but your instinct was true. Our mother did suffer grievously and at the hands of our father. Do you remember I spoke of a kind of vampirism?
Catherine Morland: Yes.
Henry Tilney: Perhaps it was stupid to express it so, but we did watch him drain the life out of her with his coldness and his cruelty. He married her for her money, you see. She thought it was for love. It was a long time until she knew his heart was cold. No vampires, no blood. But worse crimes, crimes of the heart.
Catherine Morland: It was stupid and wicked of me to think such things as I did.