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Oh, good one. While I think they have the same heartfelt spirit, and the moral of the story may be that Elinor's prudence was wiser, there is something to be said for Marianne. She loved too rashly ...
but unlike Elinor, she didn't suffer fools, and even better, shrugged off their barbs because of who said them.
A mix of the two, perhaps? Hehe
I was immediately drawn more to Elinor, with her practicality and self-control. Marianne won me over, though, with her rejection of social hypocrisy, her inability "to say what she did not feel." My favorite moment of Marianne's was the party scene at the Dashwoods', where she leapt to Elinor's defense as Fanny and Mrs. Ferrars were slighting her painting.
I prefer Elinor. I can say from personal experience that it's nice to be married to her.
Elinor.
Marianne.
Wow. You ARE married to Elinor!
Some people think that in Marianne JA was poking fun at the burgeoning Romantic movement in literature that was displacing some Rationalist/Enlightenment (Elinor) perspective.
This is captured when Elinor makes fun of Marianne's romantic love of autumn and old twisted trees: "It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves."
But I disagree with that assessment in general.
JA's pre-eminent biographer, Claire Tomalin, argues that "Sense and Sensibility has a wobble in its approach, which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph."
kc and george, would you care to elaborate on your choices?
Further explanation? I love Marianne's moxie, her passion, her joie de vivre, her Romanticism, her undivided devotion to the thing she loves, her disdain for convention — especially when it serves only to make people less free, her hatred of banal "feminine" conversation and occupations, her love of music and books, her passion for the outdoors and nature, the joy she finds in running through the rain, her expectation that everyone will love where she loves, her quickness to defend her family and friends, her ability to see when she has been self-centered and the depth of her remorse, her hatred of injustice, her outspokenness, her ability to speak her mind, even if she doesn't come off well in the eyes of others, her willingness to give the thing she loves every benefit of the doubt ...
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