Chapter 8 Flashcards
How is Mrs Jennings described?
“a widow, with an ample jointure”
and has “two daughters” who she saw be “respectably married”
What does Mrs Jennings like doing?
She was “remarkably quick in the discovery of attachments” and enjoyed “raising the blushes” of young ladies by “insinuations of her power over… a young man”
What has Mrs Jennings, as a result of her hobby, already declared?
“Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood”
How can we see that in this regency period, if two individuals of the opposite sex merely interacted they were considered in love?
Mrs Jennings “rather suspected it so” when on “their first evening of being together”
Why does Mrs Jennings think that Colonel Brandon and Marianne would be an “excellent” match?
“he was rich, and she was handsome”
What task has Mrs Jennings set herself? What does this show about society at the time?
“she was always anxious to get a good husband for every pretty girl” - the only thing that pretty girls should do is marry well - economically and socially.
How does Marianne see Colonel Brandon? How does she react to Mrs Jennings ‘shipping them’?
she sees the Colonel as being in his “advance years” and is nothing more than an “old bachelor”. She sees him as “so exceedingly ancient”.
“Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism? and is not that the commonest infirmity of declining life?”
What does Marianne think of older women and their chances of obtaining a husband?
“A woman of seven-and-twenty… can never hope to feel or inspire affection again” and she should simply “bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse”
