judgment of the greater community. Because she is unable to accept the edict of her father, she can no longer function and find justice in society's judgments and laws; she is forced to react and protest on the only available plane-the metaphysical, by applying to her heavenly father through righteous suicide, her final corporeal break and rejection of the world.
             Reading the text carefully, we find more evidence that Clarissa's self-proclaimed submission to her parents (the world) is somewhat of a fiction. Looking back at Clarissa's earlier letters to Anna Howe, we find a morbidity within Clarissa's writing that provides harbingers to her eventual suicide: "I have sometimes wished that it had pleased God to have taken me in my last fever, when I had everybody's love and good opinion" (pg. 2). Clarissa dreams of a state of constancy where she will be loved by everyone at all times. This ideal is far more important to her than the material gains her grandfather presents her in his will (which created fraction between herself and her brother and sister), even those of her corporeal health (what the world in general and Anna-the voice of reason, would deem most important). However within her letter, Clarissa admits that she cannot be "an exemplar" and also be universally loved. But though she admits to this fact, Clarissa will not concede to it-this paradox of her personality makes necessary the inheren
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