Volume I Chapter 11

Summary
Anne tries to stay with Lady Russell because she is closer to Kellynch and thus, Captain Wentworth. Captain Wentworth comes back to Uppercross after visiting his friends in Lyme. He describes how much fun he had and people get eager to go. Charles, Mary, Anne, Henrietta, Louisa, and Captain Wentworth decide to go to Lyme. They stay at the house of Captain and Mrs. Harville and they meet Captain Benwick. Benwick is depressed over the death of his financée and bonds with Anne over poetry. Anne tells Benwick to include more prose in his daily reading. The Harvilles are genuine and very hospitibale even though they do not have a large estate.

Analysis
Anne wants to be with Captain Wentworth, but knows that Lady Russell will disapprove once again. The tension between Lady Russell and Wentworth is noted when Austen writes, "were Lady Russell to see them together, she might think that he had too much self-possession, and she had too little" (87). Anne wants to be with Wentworth, but she feels obligated to please Lady Russell because of the maternal role she plays in Anne's life.

There is still an undeniable attraction between Anne and Wentworth, even though they are forbidden from being together. Captain Wentworth makes the best of the Harville's small quarters which impresses Anne because it shows that he is creative and selfless.

Anne is proud of herself for giving advice to Benwick. "Anne could not be more amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before" (94). She feels that she has done a good job because she helped a greiving man.