How the Books Relate to Jane
Undoubtedly, we can connect Jane Austen to her works of literature, by the similarity of her female heroines to herself. If you look at all of her books, the majority of them are all beautiful women who are having financial troubles and finding love is not without trouble. Yet, just by how extravagant some of those women are, we can wonder if perhaps most of these tales are actually daydreams of Austen's. Jane Austen did not have any high rank, and was only the daughter of a vicar. She never married, and was only proposed to once. When her father died, they had a large amount of financial troubles, and had to move from house to house to ensure they had a roof above their heads.
With so many people of higher rank, who had numerous servants, large estates, and very rich lives, it was no doubt that Jane was envious of them, just as some of us are of movie stars today. She probably wondered what it was like to be rich like them, and then by writing these pieces such as Emma and Persuasion, imagined what it was like. By creating characters with much similarity to her, including financial issues and the death of a parent, she could imagine she was someone else, who did fall in love and live happily ever after. The men of Austen are almost too dreamy to be real at times, and help support the idea that these were the fantasies of Jane.
Emma and Persuasion are rather similar in details and plot; both of them have lead females who fall in love at the end of the story, and both of their mothers are dead. I also find it funny that Anne and Emma both have good friends by the surname of Smith, and how Mr. Knightley and Captain Wentworth both become jealous of their rivals. Persuasion also fits the bill of her other novels by how Anne's family has tremendous financial issues, but Emma seems to be an exception from any of her other stories because of how financially independent Emma is.
All of her books show great analyzing of character, and this shows depth in Jane's personality. She must have been a very analytical person who was very observant about things. She saw far into a person's character, and in doing so, was able to describe a person so realistically, it is almost is if they were real. Her plots, though sometimes simple, have great detail and depth.
In conclusion, she was a master of words who had a stupendous vocabulary; she was a gifted master of the English language. Though her books may have been a way for her to simply dream about a life she could never have had, because of her bleak reality and financial distress, they are wonderful dreams that I am quite happy she has shared with us all.