The author’s main purpose of the passage is to depict Charlotte Stanhope’s moral and intellectual
temperament. The writer divides the story into four main parts in order to effectively illustrate the personalities
of Charlotte, the elder daughter of the family, and the Stanhope’s.
In the first part, the author portraits an introduction about the status of the family in two perspectives: A
perspective in the family and another perspective out from the family. In order to illustrate the family as a whole,
the author uses the word ‘heartlessness’. The narrator points out that others out of the family actually failed to
understand that the family is careless despite the actions of the family; for example, the act of visiting the sick
neighbors.
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It now makes sense why the author stated
that family members tried to prevent each other’s success.
In the third section of the story, as indirectly inferred from the end of section two, the author reveals the genuine
characteristics of Charlotte in a really stunning way. The narrator suddenly depicts the real personality
negatively by using the phrase’ So far, the character of Charlotte is not unprepossessing’ which hints that the
characteristics of Charlotte is not attractive when having a detailed look.. The author urges that the moralistic
features she showed in the family wasn’t really for the pure good of the family. By using the word ‘Stifle’ to
describe Charlotte’s desire to return to England, the narrator illustrates Charlotte’s will in a even more dramatic
way. The author provides various examples in order to highlight the aspiration of Charlotte. For instance
Charlotte, using her mother’s foolishness, persuaded her mother that she could be the mistress or manager of
the family if they moved. Moreover, Charlotte indulged her brother by making him a man without any job