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Austen's Sense and Sensibility.(Jane Austen)(literature criticism)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20010922
Author:Ray, Joan Klingel

No character in Jane Austen's much-studied repertoire of characters is as desperately in need of explication as Sense and Sensibility's Colonel Brandon, despite his revealing his true nature in a detailed-filled but cursorily read monologue in chapter 9 (204-10). The traditional view of Brandon is swayed by his appearing "silent and grave" and talking of "rheumatism" and "flannel waistcoats" (34, 37, 38). His marrying Marianne Dashwood, a woman eighteen years his junior with highly romantic sensibilities, is even seen as "punitive" of her. (1) Indeed, the narrator herself ...

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