Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays bare the stratagems the hypocrisy & the poignancy inherent in the struggle of two very different sisters to achieve respectability. Sense & Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor & Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment while Marianne a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age learns to curb her passionate nature in the interests of survival.