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Marianne, 'born to an extraordinary fate,' becomes the wife of Colonel Brandon—the ending Marianne herself once would have scorned. Often debated as either a happy resolution or a quiet defeat of sensibility.
Read in Books4Free →Closing Passage: Marianne and Colonel Brandon
From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The novel closes with Marianne's transformation and her marriage to Colonel Brandon, and the narrator's wry insistence that the Dashwood sisters live near one another without serious disagreement.
Chapter 50
Final lines noting that Elinor and Marianne could live 'without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands'—Austen's characteristic understated closure.
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