] when true misery hits, there is not really anywhere to go with her emotional demonstrations. It's kind of like--what do you do for an encore?

] What do you all think? Do you see signs of this addiction/attraction to 'violence' as Tave suggests?

I was amused by the passage when Marianne puts off her walk to the Grecian temple: " . . . an evening merely cold and damp would not have deterred her from it; but a heavy and settled rain even she could not fancy dry or pleasant weather for walking." Nice set up, JA! ;-) Still, this seems to me symbolic, too, of the difference between her emotional displays for their own sake and her experience with real misery, the "heavy settled rain" of emotion. But she deals with it in the only way she knows how or thinks worth using.