Theme: First Impressions and Misjudgment

From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The novel repeatedly shows characters—especially Marianne—reading surfaces wrongly: Willoughby seems hero, Brandon seems dull, Edward seems cold.
Chapter 10

Marianne's instant intimacy with Willoughby contrasted with Elinor's caution—the epistemological problem of sensibility.

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Chapter 29

Willoughby's cruel letter to Marianne at the London ball—the violent collapse of her interpretive framework.

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