In order to characterize Catherine Morland as a plain child the author uses sarcasm and attention to detail throughout the passage. In this passage the author develops three aspects of her as a person to provide the reader with insight into the world of Catherine Morland. Catherines parents, education, and personality all combine to create this excerpt about Catherine Morland in this story. Within the first few lines of this story, we come to find Catherines parental situation which wasn’t the best best, but no worse than anyone else's. Her father was a clergyman and was regarded as a very respectable man. Her mother was a woman that seemed to have plain common sense and a good temper. She needed that good temper to care for the ten children that she and her husband had in the household. As stated in this passage though, the Morlands had little right to the word family for being as plain as they were. What made this family so plain were their actions, looks, and the personality that they showed. …show more content…
In the passage, it states that little Catherine could never learn anything before she was taught. This statement made her out to be occasionally stupid and often perceived as inattentive. As Catherine grew into the age of more educational “understanding” her mother wanted her to learn music, which ended up being a lost cause for young Catherine because no matter how hard she tried to like it, she hated it. Telling her mother about a problem such as this probably wasn’t the easiest thing to do but as plain as she was, Catherine’s mother didn’t really seem to