Mind Gaps in Mansfield Park

In the midst of finishing the essays, I came across this quote from subject 14, "Yet since Austen exaggerates the mental gap between the characters, it is hard not to see them as a species apart." This is another one of those moments where I start to view something I've read before in a new light. I like that this subject noticed something that wasn't discussed in most of the other essays. (That's not to say that the others didn't have original ideas). I've never paid much attention to discourse within novels; I'm used to looking at diction and how an author uses descriptive words to create a character, but I find the idea of using discourse instead to create a character and establish their personality.