Sense and Sensibility In the novel, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen writes about many different characters. The male characters in the novel are interesting. Some characters are meant to be liked and some are meant to be disliked. Austen even develops some male characters to be ridiculed. Characters such as John Dashwood and Robert Ferrars are meant to be disliked and characters such as Sir John Middleton and Colonel Brandon are meant to be liked. …showed first 75 words of 1028 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1028 total…some of which we like and dislike, and even ridicule. Austen intentionally portrays each male character to be liked, disliked, or chastised with her words and style of writing. She may not come right out and say that she wants the reader to like one character and not the other, but she makes her point clear in the words and situations she uses concerning each character. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility, Penguin Classics. 1995