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Elinor Written by Stephanie (9/15/2012 3:13 p.m.)

Sometimes, in Author Austen's work you can see where some apple managed to fall far from the tree, but there is little here to explain Elinor's vast difference from her mother and nearest sister.

Do you suppose she takes after her father? Is the explanation only that she HAD to be practical, when there was no one else to do it?

That last is rather a pitiful conjecture. I hope it is not true. I would want everyone as nice as Elinor to have some thoughtless fun and irresponsibility as she grew up, not to be forced into staid, worried maturity by circumstances.

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Elinor Stephanie (9/15/2012 3:13 p.m.)

Eldest child? Jasmine D (9/15/2012 10:49 p.m.)
- Birth order dalyn (9/16/2012 12:41 a.m.)
  - And? Stephanie (9/16/2012 6:55 p.m.)
    - yes & no dalyn (9/17/2012 9:19 p.m.)
      - The eldest half-brother amytat (9/18/2012 7:38 a.m.)
        
        I agree Melissa K. (9/18/2012 7:06 p.m.)
Practical by nature, useful in necessity Elbè (9/16/2012 1:26 a.m.)
- Oh! I hope! nfm Stephanie (9/16/2012 6:56 p.m.)
re: Elinor Tess (9/16/2012 5:47 a.m.)
- agree Stephanie (9/16/2012 7:18 p.m.)
Maybe Elinor takes after her father & brother? Suzanna (9/16/2012 7:04 p.m.)
- cold-hearted Stephanie (9/16/2012 9:10 p.m.)
  - I am in agreement with Stephanie on this Paisley (9/17/2012 8:09 a.m.)
- Interesting thought Jasmine D (9/17/2012 12:27 p.m.)
Her choice of a serious man Paisley (9/17/2012 4:51 a.m.)
- A tiny little quibble here; gianni (9/17/2012 10:25 p.m.)
  - Edward's defiance Paisley (9/18/2012 5:24 a.m.)

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