Eliza's situation & a question

Posted by Kelley on January 25, 1998 at 20:58:29:

In response to Sense and Sensibility differences between the movie and the book, written by Monique on January 25, 1998 at 15:59:37

] I believe that Colonel Brandon's situation is also different in the movie - I haven't read S&S in so long, but didn't Eliza marry the Colonel's brother (a situation that also ended in tragedy)? Will check this out.

] Monique

Yes, she did. Here is a passage from Chapter 9 of Part 2:

[Eliza] was married--married against her inclination to my brother. Her fortune was large and our estate much encumbered....My brother had no regard for her; his pleasures were not what they ought to have been, and from the first he treated her unkindly.

Their marriage ended in divorce after her adulterous pregnancy.

While I was at home over break, I found a snippet of a quote by ET, regarding her adaptation: "I met this woman on a plane who asked me, 'Do you have the basket scene?' 'What the hell is the basket scene?' I said to myself, because the book has left my brain. She said, 'You know, the basket scene with Anne.' I said, 'Oh! I cut Anne out.' She didn't say another word. I'll understand if I get bloody artifacts sent through the post from people who want me dead."

What is the basket scene? Doesn't it have something to do with Lady Middleton's bratty kids? I've been trying to remember with no success!

REPLIES:

• Maybe this? Barbara 17:55:48 1/26/98 (0)
• Could it be? Barbara 17:52:59 1/26/98 (0)

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