The whole novel is about her and her sister Elinor, but I want to focus on Marianne. She is reasonably young, perhaps sixteen or seventeen, and she and her family are going through many difficulties. Jane Austen says they lost their home, a horrible sister-in-law, and had to move to a strange country. Since she was young, Marianne is obviously disappointed, but she takes advantage of the situation. Marianne meets many new people in her new home, and two of them are Colonel Brandon and Willoughby. Colonel Brandon is immediately interested in the young and vivacious girl, but Marianne does not want to be linked to an older man. At the beginning of the novel, Marianne lacks direction. She seeks temporary happiness and finds it in Willoughby. In my research essay, I will follow Marianne's journey to happiness as she suffers and learns that sometimes love is fleeting, and that it takes meaning and commitment to be