I’m reading “Pride and prejudice” and I’m strangely enjoying it. I like the characters and the story, I’m really hooked with the book, but I don’t really know why it is so interesting and how Austen makes me feel interested in a book that, maybe just in the surface, is so mundane.
In the past, I also read “Sense and sensibility” for University and I also enjoyed it very much.
How do you think Austen makes this? How does she make a realistic and simple book so interesting in its story and its characters?
“Pride and Prejudice” was so much more of a wild ride than I thought it’d be that I made someone that I work with read it so I could talk to someone about it. I hope you enjoy it!
I took a feminist lit class in college and we talked about how some authors of this time were dismissed for “being too dramatic” in their characters but every woman who read them (at time of publication) was like “this isn’t dramatic, this is reality”. She made very simple characters in the sense that there’s nothing overly amazing about any of them but still have believable flaws and reactions and did a good showing of realistic character growth