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Discuss the significance of the passage beginning “Anne Found Captain Benwick getting near her” in your reading of the novel

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Discuss the significance of the passage beginning "Anne Found Captain Benwick getting near her" in your reading of the novel Louisa Musgrove's accident is significant in the novel as a catalyst which brings about the reaffirmation of the relationship between Anne and Captain Wentworth. This passage is a plot device which brings an end to the relationship between Louisa and Wentworth and inevitably is the subject for the conversation that finally brings Anne and Wentworth together. In this passage the group is taking their last walk together in Lyme. The events of this passage allow Anne's ability to command a situation shine through. Her sensibility and authoritative actions provide a great contrast to her passivity in the chapters before. Louisa shows her immature nature by saying that she "must be jumped down" the steep Cobb by Captain Wentworth. Her defiance at the doubts of the others and the fact that "she...

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