What does this excerpt from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey best convey about Catherine's character?
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen (excerpt)
An abbey! Yes, it was delightful to be really in an abbey! But she doubled, as she looked round the room, whether anything within her observation
would have given her the consciousness. The furniture was in all the profusion and elegance of modern laste. The fireplace, where she had
expected the ample width and ponderous carving of former times, was contracted to a Rumford, with slabs of plain though handsome marble, and
ornaments over it of the prettiest English china. The windows, to which she looked with peculiar dependence, from having heard the general talk of
his preserving them in their Gothic form with reverential care, were yet less what her fancy had portrayed. To be sure, the pointed arch was
preserved the form of them was Gothic-they might be even casements-but every pane was so large, so clear, so light! To an imagination which
had hoped for the smallest divisions, and the heaviest stone-work, for painted glass, dirt, and cobwebs, the difference was very distressing.
OA. She is delighted that Henry's family home is so grand.
OB. She is extremely interested in modern architecture and furnishings.
OC. She is very detail oriented and notices everything in her surroundings.
OD. She is disappointed that Henry's family home is unlike the abbeys she reads about in Gothic novels.



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