Northanger Abbey features seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland who is neither poor nor rich, ugly nor pretty, lowly nor sophisticated. Truthfully, she is not much of anything, and that is what makes her such an endearing and realistic character. However, seemingly plain, Catherine proves to hold more potential as the story progresses than what was originally expected. In the opening scenes of Northanger Abbey, Catherine’s character is introduced as one who is very simple and quite unremarkable. But despite initial circumstances in which “no one…[had ever] supposed her to be a heroine,” Catherine in fact proves to be “read[ing] all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so