CliffsNotes on Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Norah Smaridge

Author:Norah Smaridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HMH Books

Analysis

When dealing with characters who are not sensible, Austen almost invariably uses direct speech, and the characters reveal themselves the more clearly because of it. We learn a lot about Robert Ferrars when he talks so insincerely to Elinor about the advantages of living in a cottage.

Lucy Steele’s speech is equally self-revealing. Not only her lack of education but her innate vulgarity is exposed. She makes such mistakes in grammar as “She had quite took a fancy to me.” Her short, simple sentences seem to reflect her emptiness of mind.

Robert Ferrars seems the opposite of his brother. Robert attributes his own superiority to an education in the “public” schools (private schools in England), which reinforced all his natural tendency towards snobbery.

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