Sense and Sensibility (novel)/YMMV
These things about Sense and Sensibility (novel) are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
- Esoteric Happy Ending: Possibly Marianne and the Colonel to a modern audience due to Values Dissonance, similar to Jo's fate in Little Women but with less evidence of Ship-to-Ship Combat.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: This passage in Chapter 35:
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"She had seen enough of her pride, her meanness, and her determined prejudice against herself..." |
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- Also, from chapter 8:
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"A woman of seven-and-twenty," said Marianne, after pausing a moment, "can never hope to feel or inspire affection again... |
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- Values Dissonance: See May-December Romance and Stepford Smiler on the main page.
- Wangst: Deliberate -- Marianne's response to her romantic woes begins to take on this edge, which to her credit she eventually comes to realize.
- The Woobie
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