What falls within the boundaries of the feminine is always considered to have lower status and power and is always subordinate and marginal: women always remain "other". I perceive feminism as part of the process of challenging the boundaries of the socially constructed role for women in our society – a process that through struggle will create for women a different notion of the normal and natural and a different tradition of being feminine. (Goodman, Harrop 4) As Goodman and Harrop explain, women were often subordinate in nineteenth-century England. In an attempt to show the ridiculousness of gender roles, Austen used her characters to dispel ideas such as a woman's desire to be second, showing that women's subsidiary nature was not innate in them, but imposed on women by society. "There is nothing better than the child," he said, "so I told my father just now that I would come, and he thought I was perfectly right. With your sister, my love, I have no scruples." Wouldn't you leave him alone, but you see I can't be of any use, Anne will send for me if anything is wrong." (Austen