u/awaiko

I’m not feeling the best today, sorry folks. Beware prompts of uneven quality. Oh, and for those who recognise it, I hope you have a good Easter weekend.

**Discussion Prompts:**

1. Edward is leaving after a week, and is gently chided that maybe he should get a job or an occupation or a hobby. Wild. He’s a gentleman, that wouldn’t do. Elinor seems to take his departure well. Would you have chosen army, navy, law, church, lazing about Oxford(!) or something else entirely?

2. New characters! What do you think of them?

3. A wet morning with St John and company. What’s your preferred way to pass inclement weather?

4. A little background and gossip on Willoughby, Col Brandon, and missed connections. Oh, and who on earth are the Westons. Are you holding all of the information and connections together? It’s all getting a bit knotty. Have a good weekend folks.

5. Anything else to discuss?

**Links:**

[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161)

[Standard eBook](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility)

[Librivox Audiobook](https://librivox.org/sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen/)

**Final Line:**

> “Mr Palmer is the kind of man I like.”

**Discussion Prompts:**

1. Edward thaws a little, and the conversation turns to money and what’s required to live. Can anyone sort of translate what two thousand a year (as passive income!) would be these days?

2. Elinor and Marianne snipe at each other’s personalities for a little while here. Are they being overly unfair on each other from what we’ve seen in the last 17 chapters? (I’m not suggesting it’s malicious, rather two teenage sisters having the same argument over and over.)

3. Edward and others discuss descriptive language. Did you get more of his personality from this passage?

4. A ring of her hair. Good grief. And it was taken surreptitiously too. Romantic? Creepy?

5. Anything else to discuss?

**Links:**

[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161)

[Standard eBook](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility)

[Librivox Audiobook](https://librivox.org/sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen/)

**Final Line:**

> … he would not have ventured to mention it.

**Discussion Prompts:**

1. Two days in a row we lose a main male love interest character to some unspecified business in London! Do you think it is Mrs Smith disapproving and getting Willoughby out of the way?

2. Elinor and Mrs Dashwood debate what it all could mean. Where do you come down on it - could Willoughby have acted better? Are they engaged? What’s Marianne going to do next? (Someone yesterday suggested she needed a cup of tea, and I couldn’t agree more.)

3. Everyone’s tiptoeing around Marianne. I had to remind myself that she’s a teenager who just had her heart broken. Some sympathy, perhaps. I am absolutely not going to ask for your heartbreak stories. Everyone can just think back and wince at some painful memories or missed opportunities.

4. Need more regret time?

5. Edward is back in the picture! I thought he had been dropped rather sharply. What do you think is bothering him and making him so cold to Elinor?

6. Anything else to discuss?

**Links:**

[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161)

[Standard eBook](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility)

[Librivox Audiobook](https://librivox.org/sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen/)

**Final Line:**

> … and treated him as she thought he ought to be treated from the

family connection.

Hello, yes, welcome back to genteel England. Did we explain that there are three moderators, we each do a week of Discussion Prompts? Here we go.

Discussion Prompts:

1. Marianne is happy, Elinor less so; dances and distractions abound. Could you enjoy this, or would you be aching to do something more with your time? (For me the quality of the library at the location of the ball is the deciding factor.)
2. What do you think of Elinor and Col Brandon’s conversation? Do you accept second attachments?
3. Has someone tried to woo you with the present of an animal? How did it go?
4. Margaret has gossip (a lock of hair, scandalous!), gets flustered (what did happen to Farrer?), and we’re off in an open-topped carriage. I’m assuming we’ve all been flustered, but have you given (or accepted) a gift such as hair, or ridden in a carriage?
5. Anything else to discuss?

Links:

[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/161)

[Standard eBook](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jane-austen/sense-and-sensibility)

[Librivox Audiobook](https://librivox.org/sense-and-sensibility-by-jane-austen/)

Final Line:

> … and Mrs Dashwood, who had already a cold, was persuaded by Elinor to stay at home.