Fanny's Choice
Posted by Xenia on May 15, 1998 at 14:51:19:
In response to A Question about Fanny Price, written by Golda on May 14, 1998 at 16:32:22
For me the major problem with MP is that poor Fanny has such a poor choice of men. Neither Crawford (even if he had reformed) or Edmund compare with Wentworth or Darcy and I've never finished the story without feeling that she is cheated somehow.
I like Edmund - he's the kind of guy you could really rely on in an emergency but I've never thought he was fit for an Austen heroine. I think if JA had reformed Crawford, if Mansfield had cured him as Mrs Grant hoped, he might have been a better deal. Might have been.
I wish Fanny had been allowed to expand a little, escape Mansfield and be something other than Edmund Bertram's greatest fan.
Xenia
- Edmund Golda 16:17:49 5/15/98
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- Edmund's faults Constanza 18:48:17 5/15/98
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- Not a *bad* guy Xenia 17:10:29 5/16/98
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- Not a *bad* guy Xenia 17:10:29 5/16/98
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- Edmund's faults Constanza 18:48:17 5/15/98
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