Overhead Look At Sands
A Report on Sense and Sensibility
Summary: Sense and Sensibility is a story about the Dashwood family, who loses
everything when Mr. Dashwood falls suddenly ill and dies unexpectedly. Mr. Dashwood is
forced, by law, to leave his fortune and vast estate to his son, Mr. John Dashwood, from his
first marriage. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and three daughters
(Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) without a home and with hardly enough money to live on.
Edward, Fanny Dashwood's older brother, falls in love with Elinor, but Fanny makes up an
excuse to send Edward to London, away from Elinor. The Dashwood family then moves to
the Barton Cottage. Elinor tries to hide her ...
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and Sensibility is about how Elinor,
practical and conventional, must learn to show her sensible side more often, and how
Marianne, emotional and sentimental, should use her sense more frequently. Elinor conceals
her feelings until she hardly knows how to or wants to reveal them. But on the other hand,
Marianne wants to play out her romantic fantasies. The book describes how Elinor and
Marianne eventually mix their sense and sensibility together, in their dealings with money
and love.
Main Character Description: Elinor, the eldest daughter of Mr. And Mrs. Dashwood,
possesses great understanding and coolness of judgement, which qualifies her to be her
mother's counselor. This enabled her to act on things for the best of all of her sisters and
mother. When the Mrs. Dashwood received the offer to move to Barton Cottage, she wanted
to know Elinor's opinion on the cottage. She had no right to object it because the rent was "so
uncommonly moderate" and was fully furnished. ...
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