Blog Post 2

I want to touch on an excerpt from chapter 21 in this week's post. "Darkness impenetrable and immovable filled the room. A violent gust of wind, risking with sudden fury, added fresh horror to the moment. Catherine trembled head to foot. In the pause which succeeded, a sound like receding footsteps and the closing of a distant door struck on her affrighted ear" (Austen, 161). I had chills reading this paragraph. I felt like I was in the Abbey, walking alongside Catherine with her manuscript in hand in the middle of a terrible storm. I definitely felt Jane Austen's attempt at foreshadowing while reading this chapter. She sets the tone for Northanger Abbey as dark and mysterious, but also allows us to imagine something even worse, which we later discover is Catherine's inkling of the General murdering the late Mrs. Tilney. Because I finished the book, I don't have any questions specifically regarding this part of the chapter, but I would like to hear a few other people's opinions on how Jane Austen set the scene for the start of volume two.