Kate achieves her happiness (and validation) through others, the ones she loves, and through the kno

Kate achieves her happiness (and validation) through others, the ones she loves, and through the knowledge she helped them get their happiness. It’s apparent from the way she giddily watches her sister on the dance floor instead of dancing herself, goes out of her way to solve all the problems in their mother’s place or the way she overindulges and pampers Newton until he can barely walk and support his own weight. They serve as outlets for her love. She pours all her love on others, leaving none for herself and without expecting anything in return as she negates herself. Anthony achieves the impossible feat because just the sight of him makes her instantly forget Edwina completely and start thinking about her own desires as she becomes transfixed by him so much she even abandons her sister to chase after him (like he chased her during their first meeting). Not because she thinks he might be suitable match for Edwina but because she wanted him for herself. She’s liked him and his smile since the moment she saw him in the park – and now, meeting him again, all dashing handsomeness and suave charm, she can’t help herself but be bewitched by him. Watching Anthony dance at the ball and following him into that secluded garden unchaperoned (not a very proper and lady-like behaviour in the 19th century) is the first thing she truly does for herself and her happiness, except for her horse riding. Seeing how she’s hiding behind the rose bushes in the ballroom and behind the shrubbery in the garden, those are things she dares only to do in secret (like she thinks she doesn’t deserve them or doesn’t have any right to them), stealing these little moments of joy to remember and take solace in when she becomes old and lives a lonely life she resigned herself to -- source link
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