Which statement best reflects the cèntral idea of this excerpt from Eaton Stannard Barrett's The Heroine? The Heroine
by Eaton Stannard Barrett (excerpt)

Irelate the several conversations, In a dramatic manner, and word for word, as well as I can recollect them, since I remark that all heroines do
the same. Indeed I cannot enough admire the fortitude of these charming creatures, who, while they are in momentary expectation of losing
their Iives, or thelr honours, or both, sit down with the utmost unconcern, and indite the wittlest letters in the world. They have even sufficient
presence of mind to copy the vulgar dlialect, uncooth phraseology, and bad grammar, of the villalins whom they dread; and all this In the neatest
and Iivellest style imaginable.

A) Barrett is ridiculing the melodrama and excessive emotions of Gothic herolnes.
B) Barrett is highlighting the significance of the Gothlc storles In Gothic literature.
C)Barrett is describing the qualities for which literary heroines are best remembered.
D) Barrett is Illustrating the obstacles that heroines in literary works have to overcome.