Oh Willoughby is totally fronting about Cowper. About EVERYTHING. I can maybe sorta believe his long confession to Elinor (which I think was originally was supposed to be a letter?) but he just liiiies and lies.
Poor Marianne is sort of like the flip side to Catherine in NA -- Catherine gets schooled about her Romantic notions too, but the guy she falls in love with actually cares for her (and shares her taste in novel-reading!), and she gets the HEA. I know we're supposed to think Marianne is happy, but she's so subdued and sad after her illness. At least she still has Elinor.
Lucy Steele is one of those great anti-heroines I kind of adore in a terrified way, like Becky Sharpe. ("Mark me down as scared AND horny," lol.) She is just so terrible! But it always amuses Austen to give her villains, if not virtuously happy endings, at least some contentment in this world.
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Date: 2022-09-06 02:24 am (UTC)Poor Marianne is sort of like the flip side to Catherine in NA -- Catherine gets schooled about her Romantic notions too, but the guy she falls in love with actually cares for her (and shares her taste in novel-reading!), and she gets the HEA. I know we're supposed to think Marianne is happy, but she's so subdued and sad after her illness. At least she still has Elinor.
Lucy Steele is one of those great anti-heroines I kind of adore in a terrified way, like Becky Sharpe. ("Mark me down as scared AND horny," lol.) She is just so terrible! But it always amuses Austen to give her villains, if not virtuously happy endings, at least some contentment in this world.