A Social Affair in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

Abstrak

This study is about analyzing how an uncomfortable social affair is described and the factors of the uncomfortable social affair. The characters are then the three women who has experienced an unpleasing life not because of the patriarchal system but because of their bad luck of dealing with high class people in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. The novel describes how miserable the women-the mother and her two daughters-are when they have to be rejected from the people around. Using close reading and sociological approach, the study finds that the aforesaid three women confront uncomfortable social affair; the mother, Mrs. Dashwood, is rejected by the in law, the two daughters, Elinor Dashwood and Marianne Dashwood, respectively, are rejected by their boyfriends, all of whom regard money has a way of taking wings in that all the women are not in use for their society’s future life insomuch as they are lack of money.