... would later be introduced as, perhaps, Austen's best work. However, some critics found Sense and Sensibility to be one of her least successful novels. Modern readers and critics, on the whole, do not consider Sense and Sensibility to be Austen's best work. Her characterization is flat in ... case is: "that when the money is once parted with, it never can return. Your sisters will marry, and it will be gone for ever" (Austen 7). Their lack of money, compounded with their powerlessness to work, means that they cannot ease their situation, except though marriage ... relationship. Soon, both ...

• Word Count: 1952
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School