As with "Pamela," Richardson emphasizes the individual over the social and the personal over the class. His work was part of a general valuation of the individual over and against the social good. Even as Fielding was reading and enjoying "Clarissa", he was also writing a counter to its messages. His "Tom Jones" of 1749 offers up the other side of the argument from "Clarissa." "Tom Jones" agrees substantially in the power of the individual to be more or less than his or her class, but it again emphasizes the place of the individual in society and the social ramifications of individual choices. While "Clarissa" cloisters its characters geographically to a house imprisonment and isolates them to their own subjective impressions in the form of letters, Fielding's "Tom Jones" employs a third person narrative and features a narrator who is virtually another character in the novel itself. Fielding constantly disrupts the illusionary identification of the reader with the characters by referring to the prose itself and uses his narrative style to posit antitheses of characters and action. Tom is a bastard and a foundling who is cared for by Squire Allworthy, who is a man of great good nature. This squire is benevolent and salutary to his community and his family. Allworthy's sister has a child who is born to a high position but who has a vicious nature. Allworthy, in accordance with Christian principles, treats the boys alike. Tom falls in love with Sophia, the daughter of a neighboring squire, and then has to win her hand. It is society that interferes with Tom, and not personified evil. Fielding answers Richardson by featuring a similar plot device (whether a girl can choose her own mate) but by showing how family and village can complicate and expedite matches and felicity. Henry Fielding's sister, Sarah Fielding, was also a novelist. Her "David Simple" (1744) outsold "Joseph Andrews" and was popular enough to require sequels. Like her brother, Sarah propounds a theory of good nature. David Simple is, as his name suggests, an innocent. He is possessed of a benevolent disposition and a desire to please, and the pressures and contradictory impulses of society complicate the plot. On the one hand, this novel emphasizes the role of society, but, on the other, it is a novel that sets up the sentimental novel. The genuine compassion and desire for goodness of David Simple were affecting for contemporary audiences, David Simple is a forerunner of the heroes of later novels such as Henry Mackenzie's "The Man of Feeling" (1771).