Obsessive and Absorption in The Female Quixote

Are there any moments in The Female Quixote where we see Arabella acting as Mondrian did with nature, and if so, what does she do it with?

"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence. Mondrian rejected nature because it would never conform to his will or sit still in grid-like immutability" (Introduction, 1).

"Her Ideas, from the Manner of her Life, and the Objects around her, had taken a romantic Turn; and, supposing Romances were real Pictures of Life, from them she drew all her Notions and Expectations" (The Female Quixote, 7).

As stated in the book, "she would have made a great Profiency in all useful Knowledge, had not her whole Time been taken up by another Study" (7). The other study that the story refers to her "Fondness for Reading." It is through these books that Arabella draws "her ideas," "notions," and "expectations." As we see later on in the novel, she uses these stories as a base for her interactions with guys. Mr. Hervey, who after seeing Arabella desires to court her, gets driven away because Arabella believes that he wishes to hurt her; she is suspicious of Edward, and rejects her cousin because he doesn't greet her properly. In another instance, Arabella is thinking of running away, but then realizes "she did not remember to have read of any Heroine that voluntarily left her Father's House, however persecuted she might be" (35). Based on these moments, it could be suggested that Arabella is absorbed in her books, and like Mondrian with nature, rejects her reality and instead draws her experiences and notions from these romantic novels she reads.