How does the author use allusion in the novel, The Verifiers?

“I know Becks thinks I’m Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, hyperventilating over my own imagination. But. What if I’m Jane Eyre and there is a crazy person banging around in the attic? I want to be the one who finds them” (109).

Claudia's constant allusions to literature are a hallmark of her perspective, which cannot help but to be informed by her huge knowledge of books.