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When Mr!. Henry Dashwood dies, leaving all his money to his first wife's son John Dashwood, his second wife and her three daughters are left with no permanent home and very little income!. Mrs!. Dashwood and her daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) are invited to stay with their distant relations, the Middletons, at Barton Park!. Elinor is sad to leave their home at Norland because she has become closely attached to Edward Ferrars, the brother-in-law of her half-brother John!. However, once at Barton Park, Elinor and Marianne discover many new acquaintances, including the retired officer and bachelor Colonel Brandon, and the gallant and impetuous John Willoughby, who rescues Marianne after she twists her ankle running down the hills of Barton in the rain!. Willoughby openly and unabashedly courts Marianne, and together the two flaunt their attachment to one another, until Willoughby suddenly announces that he must depart for London on business, leaving Marianne lovesick and miserable!. Meanwhile, Anne and Lucy Steele, two recently discovered relations of Lady Middleton's mother, Mrs!. Jennings, arrive at Barton Park as guests of the Middletons!. Lucy ingratiates herself to Elinor and informs her that she (Lucy) has been secretly engaged to Mr!. Ferrars for a whole year!. Elinor initially assumes that Lucy is referring to Edward's younger brother, Robert, but is shocked and pained to learn that Lucy is actually referring to her own beloved Edward!.


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I found this on the website listed on source, hope it helps!
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Though not the first novel she wrote, Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published!. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason!. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne!. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion!. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister!.

Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr!. Willoughby, a new neighbor!. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous!. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart!. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel!. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Why not read the book and write the plot summary yourself!? That may sound harsh, but the truth is that being able to summarize something is a very useful skill, and you won't always be able to use a search engine or Yahoo Answers to get the job done!.

Being able to condense something you've read into a paragraph or two may seem like one of those things you'll never need outside school, but practicing such things helps to build good reading comprehension, a skill you'll definitely need even once you leave school!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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