Reread aloud the Persuasion conversation Anne Elliot has with Captain Harville in Bath. Did she mean for Captain Wentworth to overhear the conversation? What does she say that influences Wentworth?
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amthorn
Jan 16, 2019
A part of me wants to think that she was fighting to rebuild her chances with Wentworth and thus used the conversation to reveal herself. But would she play that game? My answer is yes! She spent too many years wondering 'what if', and with the man she loves so close but so far out of reach, I think she'd absolutely use every (morally aligned) tool at her disposal. Go Anne!
A part of me wants to think that she was fighting to rebuild her chances with Wentworth and thus used the conversation to reveal herself. But would she play that game? My answer is yes! She spent too many years wondering 'what if', and with the man she loves so close but so far out of reach, I think she'd absolutely use every (morally aligned) tool at her disposal. Go Anne!