I believe that Jane Austen was way ahead of her time in a literary sense when writing her novels, especially "Sense and Sensibility." After reading the book and seeing the movie a billion times I have had plenty of opportunities to study and analyze (yes, I'm an analyzer) Elinor, Marianne, and their suitors.

In high school British literature, I chose to do a project on "Sense and Sensibility" and the meer i broke the characters down, the meer I began to see the differences between Elinor and Marianne and see how much they are a representation of realism and romanticism. (Both would later become...