#northanger

This meme is the famous doge meme, and I made this meme myself. The doge meme is kind of an expectation vs. reality meme, as the expectation is always better than the reality.

Catherine is the main character in my personal favorite Jane Austen novel, Northanger Abbey. She loves reading gothic novels, and seems to want to live in one. Therefore, when she gets an opportunity to live in Northanger Abbey temporarily, she sees it as a way into the novel. When she arrives, she is very disappointed, as it does not resemble the gothic castle she had hoped for. Throughout her stay at the abbey, she continually tries to find out secrets within the family and the castle, constantly trying to find a way to make it a gothic novel. However, she is unsuccessful, as her suspicions about a murder were debunked quite quickly. She is taken down a peg after that, and seems to understand what Northanger Abbey is. This is one of the most ironic moments in Northanger Abbey, as her optimistic imagination tries to create something unusual at a place that is, in all senses of the word, completely normal.