Sense and Sensibility

She is able to step back and weigh things before making a move or decision. Eleanor finally warms up and breaks free from her emotions. ” Also, Marianne is the more temperamental of the Dashwood sisters. Not until the end, Eleanor was very discreet with her feelings for Edward Ferrars. It is a touching story about learning to mix sense with sensibility in order that one may find happiness. She is poetic and dramatic as depicted in the scene where she was talking to her mother, Mrs. She is easily swept by emotions and her fantasies on finding love and happiness. She was willing to let things pass between her and Edward until she learns that he wasn’t going to be married to Lucy Steele, with whom he was “engaged.

What makes the title more significant is that towards the end, Eleanor and Marianne’s characters weren’t restricted to being Sense and Sensibility, respectively. Dashwood responded to Marianne saying something like, “You’re taking your romantic sensibilities a little bit too far. It tells of love, family, and relationships. Marianne had some “sense” knocked into her in finding the happiness that she longed for. It doesn’t dwell on anything fictional and grand, but instead mirrors in simplicity, the core feelings of people. Dashwood, about her fairy tale-thoughts on love.