Sense and Sensibility

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Sense and Sensibility‘s two heroines-so utterly unlike each other-experience the most violent passions when they are turned down by the men they love. What differentiates them, and gives this extraordinary novel its complexity and brilliance, is the way each expresses her suffering: Marianne-young, impetuous, ardent-
falls into paroxysms of grief when she is rejected by the dashing John Willoughby; while her sister, Elinor-wiser, more sensible, more self-controlled-masks her despair
when she discovers that Edward Ferrars is to marry the mean-spirited and cunning Lucy Steele. All, of course, ends happily-but not until Elinor’s ‘sense’ and Marianne’s ‘sensibility’ come together to reveal the profundity of the emotional undercurrent beneath the surface of Austen’s immaculate art.