Chapter 10 Flashcards
How is the friendship between Marianne and Willoughby?
“The same books, the same passages were idolised by each… he acquiesced in all her decisions… they conversed with the familiarity of a long-established acquaintance”
How does Elinor lightly warn Marianne about how quickly everything’s going?
“You have already ascertained Mr Willoughby’s opinion in almost every matter of importance… You will soon have exhausted dispatch of every topic for discourse!”
How does Marianne react to Elinor’s subtle warning?
“Is this fair? Is this just?… but i see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred every commonplace notion of decorum!”
What makes Marianne calm down?
“‘My love,’ siad her mother ‘you must not be offended with Elinor”
“Marianne was softened in a moment.” - emotionally fluctuates.
How does the narrator described Willoughby?
“Willoughby was a young man of good abilities, quick imagination, lively spirits and open, affectionate manners. He was exactly formed to engage Marianne’s heart”
What does the narrator say are the habits of Willoughby and Marianne’s get-togethers?
“They read, they talked, they sang together… he read with all the sensibility and spirit which Edward had unfortunately wanted.”
How does Mrs Dashwood view Willoughby?
“In Mrs Dashwood’s estimation, he was as faultless as in Marianne’s”
How does Elinor view Willoughby?
“Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity”, He often “saying too much what he thought” and “hastily forming and giving his opinion of other people” and
“He displayed a want of caution which Elinor could not approve”
What has Elinor now realised in relation to Colonel Brandon?
“Colonel Brandon’s partiality for Marianne… now first became perceptible to Elinor”
What does Elinor think of Colonel Brandon?
“She liked him - in spite of his gravity and reserve, she beheld in him an object of interest.”
What foreshadows Colonel Brandon’s story of Eliza?
“Sir John had dropped hints of past injuries and disappointments, which justified [Elinor’s] belief of his being an unfortunate man, and she regarded him with respect and compassion”
How does Willoughby describe Colonel Brandon?
“Brandon is just the kind of man… whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to”
How can we tell Marianne is easily influenced?
“That is exactly what I think of him”
How does Elinor protest against Willoughby’s haste opinions and Marianne’s easy-to-be-influenced nature?
“Do not boast of it, however… for it is injustice in both of you… I never see him myself without taking pains to converse with him”
How does Willoughby try to fix his quick opinion of Colonel Brandon? What does this actually do?
“I do not dislike him. I consider him… as a very respectable man, who has everybody’s good word and nobody’s notice, who has more money than he can spend, more time than he knows how to employ, and two new coats every year” - he’s rephrasing his judgement but still very much judging.
How does Marianne further prove her sycophantic nature?
“Add to which… that he has neither genius, taste, nor spirit”
How does Willoughby try to twist Elinor’s words? How does he also prove he is a cruel character?
“Miss Dashwood… you are now using me unkindly. You are endeavouring to disarm me by reason, and to convince me against my will. But it will not do. You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful.”
Why does Willoughby claim Colonel Brandon is not a nice person?
“he has threatened me with rain when I wanted it to be fine… and I cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare.”
