Chapter 7
Mrs. Jennings introduced as a 'good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman' obsessed with matchmaking jokes—initially despised by Marianne, ultimately one of the novel's most genuinely kind figures.
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Austen surrounds her heroines with a gallery of vulgar, kindly, foolish, or rude figures who provide both comedy and moral contrast.
Chapter 19
Mr. Palmer's celebrated rudeness and Mrs. Palmer's relentless cheerfulness—Austen's portrait of a comically mismatched marriage.
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