According to
the narrator, Katrina Van Tassel is known for her beauty. She is eighteen with a voluptuous
figure and "rosy" complexion. Katrina is the only child of a very successful farmer
with lots of land and wealth, and she is a bit of a flirt.
She has "vast
expectations," which likely means that as the young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy
man, she expects to be pursued by men of substance. She would expect proposals of marriage from
men who could keep her in the style to which she is accustomed.
The way that
Katrina dresses befits her personality. She has some pure, yellow gold antique jewelry that her
great-great grandmother had brought to America from the Netherlands. She wears a modern, stylish
"stomacher," a triangular-shaped cloth panel meant to be decorative, and it fits in
the front of a dress. She also wears a short petticoat that shows off her shapely ankles and
feet.
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