#445: Sense and Sensibility
People at work are starting to countdown the days... Apparently we have fifty-two days of work left until summer vacation.
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I am pretty huge Jane Austen fan. Like... I am huge fan as in I am sucker for all Jane Austen things. There is something about reading a story that has the most far-fetched-convoluted-ending-to-make-everyone-happy-that-somehow-makes-sense that I find entertaining. Pride and Prejudice is my favorite right a long with Mansfield Park. The only one I do not like much is Sense and Sensibility, because it is so, as Mr. Palmer would say, droll.
It feels like a ton of wordy paragraphs to convey a character is vindictive or improper without moving the story forward at all. This is the breakdown of the book: 1> The father dying (catalyst to the story), 2> Meeting of all Dashwoods and Ferrars, 3> Separation (Hey, the book cannot end in five chapters...), 4> Barton Park, 5> London, and 6> She Married Your Brother? The wrap up.
And by the time it gets to Barton Park the story loses its interest because the characters are so annoying and if you watch the movie the characters are by far worse, because when I read it I did not imagine them like that. They make me want to pull my hair out and they are not even real! The characters of the people in the story are obviously Jane Austen's point but they are so unbearable I am surprised none of them committed suicide.
The plot itself is fine but the constant repetition of peoples characters. Yes, I understand, they are frivolous, selfish, greedy, sensible, immature, etc. It is almost as if Austen was trying to get this point across so bad it took precedence over the plot. The book could have been half the length and the reader would still get the same depth of the characters. Mainly, though, I think Sense and Sensibility lacks the fun and wittiness of the other stories.
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I am pretty huge Jane Austen fan. Like... I am huge fan as in I am sucker for all Jane Austen things. There is something about reading a story that has the most far-fetched-convoluted-ending-to-make-everyone-happy-that-somehow-makes-sense that I find entertaining. Pride and Prejudice is my favorite right a long with Mansfield Park. The only one I do not like much is Sense and Sensibility, because it is so, as Mr. Palmer would say, droll.
It feels like a ton of wordy paragraphs to convey a character is vindictive or improper without moving the story forward at all. This is the breakdown of the book: 1> The father dying (catalyst to the story), 2> Meeting of all Dashwoods and Ferrars, 3> Separation (Hey, the book cannot end in five chapters...), 4> Barton Park, 5> London, and 6> She Married Your Brother? The wrap up.
And by the time it gets to Barton Park the story loses its interest because the characters are so annoying and if you watch the movie the characters are by far worse, because when I read it I did not imagine them like that. They make me want to pull my hair out and they are not even real! The characters of the people in the story are obviously Jane Austen's point but they are so unbearable I am surprised none of them committed suicide.
The plot itself is fine but the constant repetition of peoples characters. Yes, I understand, they are frivolous, selfish, greedy, sensible, immature, etc. It is almost as if Austen was trying to get this point across so bad it took precedence over the plot. The book could have been half the length and the reader would still get the same depth of the characters. Mainly, though, I think Sense and Sensibility lacks the fun and wittiness of the other stories.