Sense and Sensibility in Chapter One at Norland Park

Jane Austen does not give us physical descriptions of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood at the beginning of Sense and Sensibility. We get a picture of the sisters by the descriptions of their behaviour and the way in which they deal with their father’s death cleverly showing the ‘sense’ of Elinor and the ‘sensibility’ of Marianne [...]

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