Long walks, social gatherings, awkward meetings, slow-paced romances and a bunch of characters with deeply contrasting temperament. That’s how I’d like to describe Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
The story revolves around the three Dashwood sisters Elinor (19 years old), Marianne (17 Years old) and Margaret (13 years old). When their father dies, leaving them nothing but a small fortune the Dashwood sisters along with their mother shift to a cottage. On the one hand we have Marianne, charmed by the handsome youth and fashionable ways of John Willoughby (who later abandon’s her by the way, for the sake of money) and then we have Elinor, who doesn’t like to share every detail of what’s going on in her mind, quite contrary to her sister. Elinor loves Edward, her sister-in-law’s brother (who also abandons her for a girl Lucy, this girl then abandons him for his brother.
“Brandon is just a kind of man whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”
At last, after Willoughby leaves Marianne, she is made to realize how the world is not a fairy tale and yes, she marries Brandon. As the book quotes,
“Marriane could never love by halves; her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.”
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Elinor gets Edward as he confesses he loved her (okay, this subplot is un-digestible to me, first he abandons her for a girl, then he comes back when he is ditched by the other girl, I mean wth is this?)And that is Sense and Sensibility.
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Happy Reading!
Thoughts of solitude 