Sense and Sensibility is an elegant story that depicts the advantages of the former over the latter, as manifested between two sisters of opposite temperaments, including One loves with wisdom and the other with passion. . Set in London and the surrounding countryside, the story tells how Elinor, Mrs. Dashwood's eldest daughter, and Marianne, the second eldest, share the agony of tragic love. At the beginning of the book, Mrs. Dashwood and her three daughters are forced to move to a new, smaller home, as the death of her husband has left her quite poor. During their transition, the Dashwoods remained with his son-in-law and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. John Dashwood. It was there that the practical and conventional Elinor met and fell in love with Edward Ferrars, the brother of Mrs. John Dashwood. One rainy morning, after settling into their new cottage at Barton, Marianne, emotional and sentimental, was brought back from her walk with a sprained ankle by Willoughby, a dashing young man in his twenties. Marianne immediately fell in love with Willoughby and he with her and in the following days and weeks he was invariably found at Barton. Another new family friend, Colonel Brandon, watched with sadness as this couple formed because he too had fallen in love with Marianne. Much to her distress, during a long trip to London with her friend and neighbor, Mrs. Jennings, Marianne suffered a broken heart upon learning that Willoughby was concerned about her financial well-being and had therefore directed his affections elsewhere. A few months before the trip, Elinor learned that Edward was privately engaged to another woman, Lucy, but that he was being kept secret by this woman herself, who was unaware of Edward's attachment. 'Elinor towards him. So while in middle of paper ......d, representing meaning, she tried to connect her imagination and feelings to her judgment and the tradition on which society was based. She knew how to manage her feelings and responded with calm and serenity to the most difficult circumstances. Elinor was more concerned with the feelings of others, but Austen indicates that Elinor suffered greatly and that her thoughts were often diverted from her own misery to the afflictions of her sister, for whom she had much compassion. Jane Austen shot her matchmaker lens and true love triumphed when sense gave way to sensibility and sensibility gave way to sense. In the novel, Austen expresses a universal truth that is key to her character's development: "the imaginations of others will lead them to form bad judgments of our conduct and to decide upon it by slight appearances ».'.