Jane Austen only ever had six completed novels, the last to be published being Persuasion (1818), all based in the realist and manners novel genre. Persuasion that falls into these two categories follows the story of Anne Elliott, a character based on the Cinderella archetype. Romanticism and morality novels still serve the same purpose today, they offer the reader a window in which to peek into someone else's life, some may have seen their reflections, particularly the landed gentry of the time, who of course were Austen's. the subject, for the poorest classes, who were able to read or even afford a book, it revealed what was happening behind these closed doors. Persuasion is unique among Austen's novels due to the maturity of the protagonist being twenty-seven years old, as opposed to the usual late teens or very early twenties, which feature in her other novels. There is also more emphasis on the inner self and the self-made man, rather than rank and nobility. The scathing social commentary presented in the novel is carefully separated. The emphasis remains heavily on marrying for status, either marrying within your own social group or marrying outside your social group to gain status. The second is the one that appears in all of Austen's novels, marrying for love, regardless of social status. Austin used literary techniques such as realism, third person narrators, and created situations and characters as tools to create influence on the reader. Austen's subject matter was similar to that of other novelists of the time, but what made Austen stand out and become a regular on academic reading lists was her sense of realism and social commentary hard. The use of characterization and theme allows...... middle of paper......information exclusively intended for the reader and which remains confidential from the characters in the novel. The themes presented are created by Austen so that she can launch a scathing attack on the area of ​​society that could have affected her personally. Works Cited Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Ed. Gillian Beer. 3rd ed. London: Penguin, 2003. Print. Greiner, Rae. “The art of knowing one’s own nothingness.” ELA 77.44 (2010): 893-914. MUSE project. Internet. February 24, 2011. .Hawthorn, Jeremy. Study the novel. 6th ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. Print. Taylor, Matthew. “What Persuasion Really Means in Persuasion: A Mimetic Reading of Jane Austen.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 11 (2004): 105-23. MUSE project. Internet. February 24. 2011. .