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Game Girl Advance

If you'd like to help keep GGA afloat, we thank you!  remained for many years my least favorite Austen novel: the heroine so passive and mild, the moral themes so unyielding, and the injustices Fanny endures so extensive, that I found the novel often more pain than pleasure to read. I finished reading it again about a week ago, and I am more inclined to rate it higher. Of all Austen's novels it is, perhaps, the most critical of moral corruption and metes out more punishment to those who err. While Fanny remains very timid and quite unlike fan favorite Elizabeth Bennet, I had much more sympathy for her and respect for the delicate way Austen delineated her circumstance and portrayed her character. When Fanny does defy everyone she loves, that action is highlighted by her usual acquiescent nature and becomes a key pivot in the novel, while the comparabe scene of Lizzy standing up to Lady Catherine de Bourgh is just what we'd expect the lively Miss Bennet to do. Fanny is shown to be just as courageous and right-minded as all the Austen heroines, although much more shy.

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