Select the correct answer. Which common Gothic theme is evident in this excerpt from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey?
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen (excerpt)
"Her picture, I suppose," blushing at the consummate art of her own question, "hangs in your father's room?"
"No; It was intended for the drawing-room; but my father was dissatisfied with the painting, and for some time
death I obtained it for my own, and hung it in my bed-chamber-where I shall be happy to show it you; it is very
portrait-very like-of a departed wife, not valued by the husband! He must have been dreadfully cruel to her!
OA
damsel in distress
OB.
murder
insanity
OD. fading beauty