“I passed off the letter as his wife's, to the Vernons, and when I write to him it must be under cover to you.” (V).
The structure of Lady Susan makes it challenging for Austen to properly depict her characters. For that reason, Austen must craft innovative ways to show her character’s defining features. Without blatantly saying it, Austen shows that Lady Susan is a selfish and deceitful woman. Lady Susan does not care that she is ruining another woman’s life for her own enjoyment, or that she is deceiving her family in order to do so. Austen uses Lady Susan’s selfish, flirtatious nature to demonstrate Austen’s disapproval for the state of women’s behavior at the time.
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