She rated Lady Russell’s influence highly, and as to the severe degree of self-denial, which her own conscience prompted, she believed there might be little more difficult in persuading them to a complete, than to half a formation.
She wanted it to be prescribed, and felt as a duty. Anne considered it Sir Walter’s duty, which demonstrates how much more mature she is to those who claim dominance over her. In Chapter 1, Anne desires her father clear all his debts. If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years he will be clear and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch-hall has a respectability in itself, which cannot be affected by these reductions…” “If we can persuade your father to all this,” said Lady Russell, looking over her paper, “much may be done. Lady Russell realizes Anne is the most reasonable of the lot, and, moreover, Anne possesses skills she has learned over the years to do the impossible when it comes to her obstinate relations. In Chapter 1, Lady Russell speaks to Anne of the Elliots’ need to economize and asks Anne’s assistance in persuading her family to do what is necessary. But who is under the powers of persuasion?
So how often do we encounter “persuasion” in Jane Austen’s last novel. It is not pretended that she would, with any length of life, have produced heroic paintings of extensive and complicated scenes, for that was not her field it may reasonably be supposed, had she lived, her miniatures might, in succeeding years, have shown predominantly the sympathetic quality which in Persuasion begins to assert itself.” The book marks the beginning of a third period, beyond the entrance to which she did not live to go. Shubrick Clymer says, “ Persuasion does not…echo with the distant hum of the whole of human life it is, however, a ‘mirror of bright constancy.’ Jane Austen’s observation, unusually keen always – and this is no mean qualification, for has not humor its source in observation? – here unites with the wisdom of forty to make a picture softer in tone, more delicate in modeling, more mellow, than its companions of her girlhood, or than its immediate predecessors in her later period. She provides her reader the promise of a wider scope of understanding. In Persuasion we find a twist of pathos, not present in her other novels. Jane Austen writes plot-driven masterpieces, and all her God-given skills come together in Persuasion.
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