Fiction was considered a kind of manipulative genre that supposedly made others think about things differently. In Coquette, Foster defines many aspects of life, marriage, and status in the 1800s, and expresses these views in his own view that not many agreed with. She showed how a woman is left with nothing and began to cause a commotion among others. Being successful during that time, according to Foster, meant finding a suitable mate and knowing that he had to have your undivided attention, but where Eliza was concerned, things didn't go so well. She was left alone and despite having friends you tend to stay away when they inform you that you have done something wrong, in Eliza's case her excessive need for freedom and her desire to be with Sanford for fun, “He is a gay man, my dear, to say the least, and such are the companions we desire, when we join a group avowedly formed for pleasure” (114). Unfortunately, Eliza was only focused on partying and freedom, not on the fun of being a wife, if there was such a thing