Carefree life
Lady Susan is a cunning and perfidious woman, but she definitely knows what she wants from life. Trying to settle her daughter’s life she does not forget about herself, and there was once a candidate who she regrets not to have married herself, and: “were he but one degree less contemptibly weak I certainly should: but I must own myself rather romantic in that respect, and that riches only will not satisfy me”. Looking for both love and wealth Lady Susan is left with nothing at all. It shows how ironic life might be, as they say: grasp all, lose all!
Narrow-minded Lady Susan
Susan says in one of her letters to Alicia that she considers “throwing time away to be mistress of French, Italian, and German: music, singing and drawing, will gain a woman some applause, but will not add one lover to her list.” With such an opinion about education Lady Susan proves once more how really narrow-minded she is.
A good companion
When Frederica comes to Churchhill everyone there awaits a person completely spoilt and stupid, but she appears to be nothing like it. Catherine Vernon likes her the most, and as Susan notes “because she is so little myself”. Pretty ironic that a mother might have such a low opinion of her own daughter, and even thinks that others like her daughter because she is not like her mother. Well, this is true, she is nothing like her mother and it is the biggest compliment to her.
