Sense and Sensibility Group

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omnia
omnia
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College - Junior

Although Sense and Sensibility ends with the marriages of the two main female characters,it leaves us with a sense of sadness. Do you agree with this?

Please, answer with an explanation to enable me to understand your answer.

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Posted by omnia on Friday September 7, 2007 at 12:50 PM and tagged with ending, sadness, sense and sensibility.

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  1. dymatsuoka

    eNotes Editor

    Spirited, passionate Marianne once believed that a person should only love once in life, wholeheartedly, but circumstances teach her that the world does not conform to that ideal.  The love of her life was to have been Willoughby, but he jilted her; she scorned the idea of Brandon as a suitor because she knew he had loved someone before.  Her marriage to Brandon is thus a sort of compromise, happy enough, but not full of the passion she once believed in. 

    Marianne must accept the fact that in the real world, practicality and common sense work much better than intense feeling and emotion.  In marrying Brandon, she does conform, but it is sad to see her idealistic, feisty spirit "tamed", disillusioned and restrained.

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    Posted by dymatsuoka on Friday September 7, 2007 at 1:39 PM


  2. renelane Teacher
    High School - 11th Grade

    eNotes Editor

    While Elinor marries the man she hoped to, the marriage of Marianne is unexpected and out of character for her. Impetuous by nature, it is very sad to realize that by marrying Brandon, she will become just another wife. Brandon's calm, structured personna will be sure to tame her, and that the Marianne we came to know will no longer exist.

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    Posted by renelane on Saturday September 8, 2007 at 5:52 AM