![]() ![]() Aunt Lavinia has a powerful imagination and Morris is a wonderful object for her to think on. On this first visit, however, Arthur (Morris' cousin) spends most of his time speaking to Catherine, while Morris spends his time charming Aunt Lavinia. This is largely the result of Aunt Lavinia's suggestion to Morris, that he come and visit Catherine. Almond's daughter, come to visit the Sloper residence in Washington Square. Townsend (Morris) and his cousin, the stockbroker engaged to Mrs. Even when Aunt Lavinia asks Catherine for the young man's name, Catherine replies, "I don't know."Ī few days later, Mr. Sloper applies his interrogative pressure, but he finds that Aunt Lavinia's excitement is matched - for intensity - in Catherine's detached silence. Townsend and she is excited about the prospects of a romance. ![]() Catherine finds him stunning, dashing, gorgeous and it is clear that if there will not be romance between the two, there will be something.Īunt Lavinia finds the opportunity to have a very detailed conversation with Mr. Townsend grew up in New York, but he has been traveling for a great time and has only recently returned home. ![]() Townsend, a member of the stockbroker's family, attends the party and expresses a healthy interest in Catherine. Almond gives a party, celebrating the engagement of one of her daughters to a stockbroker. Sloper has not expected very much to come of Catherine, so it is no great loss. Sloper is not entirely thrilled with Mrs. Sloper's favorite sister, it is no surprise that Dr. Penniman has clearly had a good amount of influence on Catherine. Almond's daughters marries "very punctually" and the other is engaged just as quickly. Catherine goes some time without setting her eye on a particular beau. His worry is that Catherine's dresses are simply too expensive. Sloper lives in the Washington Square neighborhood in Manhattan, and he has a well-defined code of values and taste. Sloper's opinion that matters most to Catherine. Her dresses are approved by all except Dr. Sloper is embarrassed because of Catherine's somewhat extravagant and vulgar taste in party dresses. Sloper is not proud of his daughter, but she is not inferior - simply "commonplace."Īs Catherine matures into adolescence and then, past the age of sixteen, her entry into Society becomes an issue of real importance. He considers her not-very-clever, and so she remains quiet - evidence of what she is not. He considers her dull, and so she remains passive - evidence of her dullness. ![]() Sloper is lord of the manor and highly effective in stamping his impressions of Catherine upon Catherine's psyche. Penniman sees more in Catherine than Catherine's father does - but Dr. Sloper has been disappointed with Catherine since her birth he considers the young girl dull, boring, and unintelligent. Sloper eventually came to an unspoken agreement, by which she remained in her brother's house and took charge of Catherine's education and development into a young woman of refinement. Almond is less imaginative and impractical than Lavinia is. Almond (Elizabeth - we learn this later in the novel) is married to a prosperous merchant and she has several children. Penniman (Lavinia) is a widow, once married to a poor clergyman. Sloper's eyes, young Catherine lacks all the grace, intelligence, and beauty of her mother. The daughter is named Catherine, after her mother, but in Dr. After the birth of Sloper's second child, a girl, Sloper's wife takes ill and dies. Sloper's first child is a boy, who dies at the age of three. Sloper is not independently wealthy, but his practice is growing and he is a man who is held in high regard - all the more so because he continues to work assiduously despite his new-found wealth. It is Austin Sloper's good fortune to marry Catherine Harrington, a very wealthy young woman. He is extremely intelligent and a man of high reputation. A young man named Austin Sloper has made a name for himself as a medical doctor. The story begins in Manhattan in the early 1800s. ![]()
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