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I’m taking a test on Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” tomorrow, please pray.
Absolutely. That is my favorite of her novels. I know a lot of people think of it as difficult in that Mary and Henry Crawford are presented as attractive and yet are 'minds darkened, but thinking themselves light" and that Fanny is just too weak physically and too ‘perfect’ emotionally, but I still prefer Fanny (and Edmund). Fanny knows what is right and she sticks by it, even when she suffers for it (by refusing Henry and being misunderstood by Sir Thomas, sent to visit her family in Portsmouth and suffering for more than 3 months in a noisy household with little food to boot!) Edmund certainly wavers but it’s more that he sincerely believed that Mary had virtues that she did not (she was certainly mercenary, and while she was sincerely attracted to Edmund for Edmund’s sake, she would have wound up, had she married him, making him totally miserable, by little and little having him sacrifice his ideas of truth in order to satisfy her own needs and desires).I’m taking a test on Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” tomorrow, please pray.



Thank you for the update. I’m hoping your great is not affected much as you note.Thank you everyone for all the prayers. It didn’t go too great, but I don’t think it will bring my grade down much.