ISABELLA THORPE

As I read through Northanger Abbey searching for which character to analyze, I decided that the character that intrigued me the most was Isabella Thorpe. Her character in the novel has an ability to exaggerate small details into extraordinary situations that always play out in her favor. A good example of this is when she meets Elizabeth for the first time and walks with her in the pump-room. It is in the pump-room that Elizabeth makes use of her ways to create this allusion of herself as a connoisseur of being able to judge people at sight. She may think that she is capable of being able to make judgments of others just by “Point out a quiz through the thickness of a crowd” (Jane Austen 19). In spite of Elizabeth’s over exaggeration she know hoe to use it in her favor and when to hold back. The scary part about this is that she is very aware of what she is doing. Unlike Catherine’s in ability to read others, Elizabeth’s exaggeration is not merely an uncontrollable flaw, whic...