Chapter 2
Fanny Dashwood's incremental erosion of John's promised support—from three thousand pounds, to an annuity, to occasional presents, to fifteen pounds. A masterclass in self-interest.
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From Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Austen makes the economic foundation of love and marriage relentlessly explicit, beginning with the legal dispossession of the Dashwood women.
Chapter 17
The Marianne-Elinor debate on competence versus wealth: Marianne's 'about eighteen hundred or two thousand a-year; not more than that' as a modest income.
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John Dashwood at the jeweler's, calculating Elinor's marriage prospects and Mrs. Ferrars's wealth—the mercenary worldview made comic.
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