By Lisa Having read pride and Prejudice before this one, I understand why Jane Austen created characters such as Elizabeth Bennet! The two characters in this novel, Elinor and Marianne are all enclosed in 2 their vision of love (reasonable, the other passion), and finally passive before the choices imposed in this nineteenth-century England. Although we feel that Elinor has a deep love for Edward you soon realize that it would be unable to fight to keep it. For Marianne, it's the same thing, if it remains frozen in his idea of the first and only love that can not be replaced by any other one ends up wondering how her story will end. I admit still not have seen the end coming (I did not know the story) and finally be a little disappointed pairs formed .... But that's my opinion! The importance of money for weddings is even more present than in pride and Prejudice, and the status of being "lower" that was the woman at that time (it's cold in the back ...) !!! A good Jane Austen novel all the same! I advise course!