Mansfield Park

Instead of going to bed last night, I finished Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Although it was a long book, it was something that I will never forget.

Mansfield Park is about 18-year old Fanny Price. Fanny moves in with her aunt and uncle when her family can no longer afford all of their children. Fanny is shy and never voices her opinions except to her one trusted friend and cousin: Edmund. Interestingly, Fanny is the main character but Austen talks more about the other characters so readers can understand how out of place she feels. Fanny falls in love, but he wants to marry a girl with no manners. Fanny has an admirer who she knows she could never love. When she rejects her admirer she is sent to live with her parents for 3 months in the hopes that she will change her mind. But when her admirer runs off with another woman her uncle sees how much Fanny knew about this man that she refused to tell everybody.