Critics for end of years

Marianne and Elinor

Elinor’s calmness is a “buffer” for Marianne’s excessive sensibility - Henry

Elinor and her mother

Because of her mother’s lack of responsibility, Elinor has an “excessive sense of duty” - Poovey

Evil women

“Sense and Sensibility is a novel about how cunning women manipulate weak men” - Blatt

Sense and Sensibility

“The grand irony is that Elinor and Marianne virtually interchange their positions” - Wright

Marianne and Willoughby

“Just as Marianne misjudged the weather, so too does she delude herself about Willoughby’s true character” - Altman

Primogeniture

“Painstakingly precise” - Mullen

Robert Ferrars

“Exceeding all these shallow, selfish characters is Robert Ferrars” - Gessall

Marianne’s marriage

“Evenif her marriage is not a punishment, there is a sense of defeat” - John Mullan

Marianne and Illness

“Marianne dies, is reborn, and this birth is a birth into another ideology.” - Seeber

Carriage

“Losing a carriage meant losing status and society” - Limmer

Marriage

“All of Jane Austen’s heroines are husband-hunters, though none would like to admit it, even to themselves” - Bartlett