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Contd from Page 8 :By contrast, Marianne’s older sister, Elinor, is the guiding light of ‘sense,’ or prudence and discretion, whose constancy toward her lover, Edward Ferrars, is rewarded by her marriage to him after some distressing vicissitudes.Pride and Prejudice describes the clash between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich and aristocratic landowner. Although Austen shows them intrigued by each other, she reverses the convention of ‘first impressions’: ‘pride’ of rank and fortune...
