I'm sorry if I've totally missed something but apart from dressing the house up to look like Mysteries of Udolpho, I'm failing to see the connection between Grigg and Northanger Abbey. Can anyone explain? Thanks
shareHe's supposed to be like Catherine Morland, a person who is mad keen on NOVELS, novels that are not taken seriously by his peers or his society. In Miss Austen's day novels in general were regarded as poorly as sci-fi genre novels were when the book was written, as something only fit for juvenile minds.
He's not a very successful gloss on Catherine Morland, really, I don't recall a single entertaining moment of being unable to distinguish between fiction and reality.
“Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!
Ah thank you! Despite studying Northanger Abbey I still couldn't make the connection. Thanks again.
shareOh yeah... in the book, Grigg's father is the person who does a Catherine Morland and makes an ass of himself by behaving like a character in a cheap popular novel. Did any of that make it into the movie?
I'm re-reading the book, so if anyone can make a connection between Bernadette and "Pride and Prejudice" other than attending a formal event that proves to be no fun, please enlighten me.
“Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!
Sorry probably should have clarified I posted the previous message in my old account. No Grigg's dad is only mentioned in the library scene as an exsistance. Sounds like it was more explicit in the book.
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