So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic-a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published.
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