Chapter 2
The Fanny-John dialogue, often taught as a self-contained masterpiece of free indirect satire.
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Austen reserves her sharpest satire for the wealthy and well-connected: the John Dashwoods, Mrs. Ferrars, and Lady Middleton.
Chapter 34
The dinner at Mrs. Ferrars's: the contest between Fanny and Lady Middleton over whose child is taller—pure social comedy.
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Robert Ferrars on cottages—the absurd aesthete contrasted with the real poverty of Barton Cottage.
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