As the title suggests, Sense and Sensibility is, in some ways, a debate about the principles of rationalism, represented by Elinor Dashwood, and those of Romanticism, represented by her sister Marianne.
Few Austen heroines are set up so approvingly as Elinor is. Yet novelist David Gates has described her as “ambivalent a heroine as Mansfield Park’s notoriously hard-to-warm-up-to Fanny Price.”
Why would he say such a thing?
Discussion questions - Sense And Sensibility Volume 1 : How did Mr. John Dashwood come
Discussion questions – Sense And Sensibility Volume 1 : What promise does Mr. John Dashwood
Discussion questions – Sense And Sensibility Volume 1 : Who is Edward Farrars
Discussion questions – Sense And Sensibility Volume 1 : What causes Mrs. Dashwood to accept
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