"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:18:22
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (636 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 2 pages (636 words)
"Sense and Sensibility" is a book by Jane Austen. It is set partly in London, partly in its surroundings in Southern England in the 19th century. The main characters are Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, two beautiful sisters who are forced to leave their home, Norland, when their father dies and leaves the house to his eldest son, Elinor and Marianne's brother John.
Of the two, Marianne represents the "sensibility" and Elinor is the "sense". Being
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will, but that he has to marry Miss Grey for mercenary reasons. Mrs. Dashwood also comes, and Marianne starts getting better. Together they go back to Barton.
As was expected, Marianne marries Colonel Brandon. One day, Edward comes to the cottage. He says that once he was disowned and his mother refused to leave him anything, Lucy decided to marry his brother, who had gotten everything that should have been his. Edward and Elinor marry.
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