The Gist
After Mr. Dashwood dies his beloved family is left impoverished. They are forced to move into the country. Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters:Margaret, Marianne, and Elinor, try to make the best out of what they can and soon find a new home and friends in their small cottage in Barton.
Marianne and Elinor are both of an age to be finding husbands. They are as close as sisters can be but as different as it gets. Soon enough they both find love, but it is ruined when Marianne’s foolish young heart falls for a player and Elinor’s stoic senseful heart falls for a man who is already engaged. The two sisters have to endure the many obstacles of social class at the time and it shows them how much love can actually endure.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by ShoreWhisperer
Number of Pages: 406
Jane Austen is a classic writer and I absolutely loved this book. I feel that all the stories that we read today about love and relationship were based off of the classics like Wuthering Heights and Sense and Sensibility. You see the darker side of relationships and all the scandal that we have in the books today in the books written by the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen. Onto the actual book though. This book was really good. It’s on the harder side of the reading level though because of the language. It’s not in the English that we speak today. They say things differently and it takes a little while to get the hang of reading Austen’s writing. It took me a couple of other classics and a little Shakespeare to be able read Austen or any classic with ease. My favorite part of the books were the characters. They seemed so real. When I read other books I sometimes feel that there is no way that the characters could be real, especially the men. The men in this book could very well be my next door neighbor for all I know. My favorite was Edward Ferrars. He was the most diffident person I have ever read about. They way she described him and his lines were the most revealing of this. I don’t know how she did it but she made him come to life. I was able to picture him and his stuttering perfectly. It was amazing. She did this with all of her characters.
The plot, although predictable, had some unexpected twists. There were many points of the book that I thought would be impossible to add-on too. Then she came up with something unexpected, it made the book interesting. The best part was that there were no extremely cheesy love scenes. Not like the Twilight books where they are so cheesy that it’s awkward to read them. There are a couple of scenes though that make you say ‘oh that’s really cute.’ but nothing over the top. It is all very realistic. Besides being realistic it is really hysterical. If you can picture the scenes in your head you feel everything that is going on in the book. You can tangibly feel the awkwardness or the sadness or the business, it’s like you are living the book. That’s what books are supposed to do and she did it wonderfully. I always was able to get into the book and become part of the Edwardian eighteenth century. I know it sounds weird but I even felt happy and not disgusted with a marriage between a seventeen year old and thirty-five year old. It seemed natural and it was normal for the time period, I even found the match a good one because they really did love each other. I am trying to describe how you slip into the book but it really isn’t working. The only way you can actually understand it is to read the book. Jane Austen is an amazing writer, in that sense. On the other hand, the ending bugged me. There is all this happiness in the end but everything gets resolved, nothing ended up not happy. There were chances for it too, that is what depressed me. I wanted it to be a happy ending but I like it when there is someone who ends up not right in the end because either they deserve it or I didn’t like them. This story ended with everyone being happy in a sense and that seemed like a weird ending considering that I was thinking that she was realist. That is my only complaint about this book. Otherwise, I loved it. There were parts when it got boring but not a lot. This book is definitely worth reading.
Real Teen Rating~ A- : Read it!
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