Resumo de Persuasion - Jane Austen

Persuasion is the story of Anne Elliot who has plain features and is like a stranger in her own house because her sister Elizabeth doesn't really like her and neither does her father. Long ago when she was in her teens she fell in love with a young officer Frederic Wentworth but she let the love of her life go away because her father, Elizabeth and her mother's best friend didn't approve of him as he had no fortune to call his own. This is something we can all relate to as she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social station wise, and that Anne could do better.
The novel opens some eight years after Anne sent her Knight in armour packing and she is still alone.By then she has realised her mistake and is repentant of it. She however is steadfast and constant to the ones she loved dearly. Then her Knight returns completely transformed with the reputation befitting a Duke in shining armour.
They meet again when Frederic's brother came to live at the Elliot manor with his wife. Frederic has made a name and fortune for himself and is now a captain in navy. At first he treats Anne in a cold detached manner and flirts with Henrietta and Louise who are Anne?s sister's husband's sisters. His initial reservations give way to his deeper feelings about her when they go to Bath.
There Anne meets her distant relation Mr. Elliot, who was suppose to marry Elizabeth years ago. He takes an interest in her and she starts to discover just how beautiful she really is. He courts her and even asks her hand in marriage but in the end she ends up marrying Frederic and Mr. Elliot is exposed as the fraud. Austen's storytelling is confident and full of unexpected twist and turns. It?s a story of self-discovery, love lost and found and forgiveness. Anne is quite smart but unlike Elizabeth Bennet of ? Pride &Prejudice? she is shy ,withdrawn and less confident about herself perhaps because of the bad treatment she receives from Elizabeth and her father and suffers from the absence of her mother. the 18th century tale of love and notion of family comes first over love still hold ground in modern times as human emotion remain all the same.

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