Didn't like the book although it was quite refreshing to read something different from the usual. The prose I am not sure, felt a little stiff and awkward. The plot felt frivolous. Nobody in the book seemed to have a real job. All everyone did was to hold dinner parties, play card games, getting engaged.... Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister, Marianne Dashwood were the main characters of the book. Elinor was the more sensible, rational, and austere one, while Marianne was the prettier and spoilt one. Marianne met Willoughby when she and Elinor were racing home and she fell- cue Willoughby to the rescue. Willoughby and Marianne soon grew close and Marianne thought that he was going to propose to her for sure. However, Willoughby went unheard from and subsequently Marianne came to know he had gotten engaged and was to marry soon. The reason he turned his back on her was that he needed money and hence, had chosen to marry a wealthier woman. Marianne had another quiet suitor in Colonel Brandon, a much older man who was less exciting that Willoughby. Marianne grew ill and Elinor kept watch by her side while she too was nursing a broken heart. She and Edward Ferrars were too meant to be engaged but she later learnt that Edward was already engaged to a dull and uneducated women- Lucy Steele. In a twist of fate and after some misunderstandings, she finally learnt that Lucy Steele had married Edward's brother instead. She was elated. All's well that ends well- Marianne married colonel brandon and Elinor married Edward ferrars.
I wonder what's the charm in this book? Why is it even popular? Really strange.
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