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Fanny Price's life from her time living with her family in a portside village to her time in the great house of Mansfield Park.
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Fanny is the eldest girl of a large family. Her family is poor and she finds herself at the tender age of six trying to take care of her younger siblings and please her mother when another baby is born. Fanny now has another sibling to take care of. She is wresting with the "initiative versus guilt" phase and though she has many skills for one so young, she usually falls into guilt if her drunk father yells at any of her younger siblings, or her. But she soldiers on.
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When Fanny is 11, she is sent away to live with family she has never met. They offered take in one of the now nine children born to their poor sister and so it was Fanny who was chosen. Fanny was in the stage of "Industry versus Inferiority" and this change created great feelings of inferiority on a host of levels. For one, she was suddenly the "poor relation" not the helpful and smart daughter and sister. She could do no right in her aunt's and was only expected to keep out of the way.
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When Fanny is 19, and still at Mansfield Park, she catches the eye of one Henry Crawford, a new friend of the family. Henry is liked by the family and has a decent inheritance. But Fanny does not like him and feels he is not genuine. She is squarely in the stage of "Intimacy versus Isolation." She is being pressured to accept Henry. She won't though, in spite of the disapproval and accusations of ingratitude. She risks isolation in favor of her intuition and the hope for true love to find her.