Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Despite being an ordinary girl, Catherine Moreland believes she was destined to be a heroine, just like her favorite Gothic novel. However, she may have spent her whole life in Fullerton, the small village where she was born, but wealthy neighbor's wife Mrs. Allen did not invite her to Bath, Catherine opened up a whole new world. Who enjoyed the colony's social life at Bath, she met Isabella Thorpe, who was more worldly than Catherine and took it to teach Catherine. In the form of society Isabella also introduced Catherine to her brother John Thorpe. He and Catherine's brother James Moreland were friends, and the four young people spent hours having fun.
Catherine meets young theologian Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, whom she is anxious to get acquainted with. John interferes with her in this desire, and Isabella and James assist him in a deception that aims to keep her away from Henry and Eleanor. After Isabella and James are engaged, Isabella tries to double the interest of Catherine as her beloved brother. Although Catherine loved her friends very much. But she could not convey this love to John, who she knew in her heart as a reluctant and unwilling young man.
While James was at home to arrange a grant to get him and Isabella to get married, Henry Tilney's brother Captain Tilney appeared at the scene. He has the same secular status as Isabella, and more importantly to her is very rich. Catherine was a little nervous at the way Isabella treated Captain Tilney. But she was too loyal to her friends to suspect she was cheating on James.
Shortly after Captain Tilney arrived, Bath, Catherine was invited by Eleanor Tilney and her father, General Tilney, to visit them in Nord. Thanger Abbey, their old country house Catherine is glad. She always wanted to go to the actual temple. She quickly wrote and received a letter of consent from her parents. Henry stimulates her imagination with tales of dark corridors, chests, and mysterious closets.
When the party arrived in Northanger Abbey, Catherine was a little surprised and shocked to find that Tilney's explanation was so straightforward. When she heard that Mrs Tilney had died suddenly years ago, Catherine began to suspect that the general had killed her. On the first opportunity, she tried to enter the dead girl's room. Henry met her there and assured him that his mother had died naturally. Katherine was almost disappointed as the news broke her romantic fantasies about Northanger Abbey.
More than a week after this incident, Catherine was worried because she had not received a letter from Isabela. When the letter came from her brother James, she learned the reason Isabella was silent. He wrote that Isabella was engaged to Captain Tilney. Catherine was almost sick when she read the news, and Henry and Eleanor Tilney were as nervous as her. They know that only greed and ambition drew Isabella from James to their richer brother, and they were afraid of happiness. However, they believe the captain has more experience with women like this and will do better than James.
Not long after, Catherine receives a letter from Isabella that tells the story in a completely different light. She pretended that she and James had just been mistaken and pleaded with Katherine to write a letter to James on her behalf. Katherine wasn't in, she wasted no time showing empathy for her once-only friend, and believed her brother was lucky to get rid of such a cheater.
After a while, the General went on an errand in London, and Eleanor and Katherine were alone at the temple. Henry's administrative duties forced him to spend time in the nearby parish.
