Persuasion is a story about an educated gentlewoman. However, this is not simply about a woman`s life, but also about the social changes of early nineteenth-century Britain. An abused woman in the gentry, Anne reveals its social contradictions better than any other character in the novel. As a "mediator," she discloses the clash between the modern social discourse about equality and the feudal social discourse of aristocratic prestige. Austen presents Anne`s internal and caring morality as a remedy for the moral corruption in the gentry. However, because of her dependent social position as a woman, she cannot actively reform the corrupt gentry. For this reason, the moral reform of gentry society needs some other external forces. Through courtship as an educating process, Anne helps to make an ideal moral reformer out of Wentworth, a representative of the new naval force. Considered from a postcolonial perspective, especially in the historical context of the Napoleonic Wars, this moral reform has a new "national" meaning. At that time, the monarchy and aristocracy showed not only moral corruption, but also a predilection for the French style of life. For this reason, their moral corruption posed a threat to the whole nation beyond the limits of a social group. In this situation, the navy actively participated in the imperial conflict with France and laid a foundation for the British Empire by winning the war. Austen describes this victorious navy as a reforming force by adding their "domestic virtue" to their "national importance." As an outsider within the gentry, Anne ultimately shows the possibility of reforming that corrupt society with the aid of the naval force, particularly Wentworth`s reconciliation between traditional refined manners and democratic care for others.