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Group: Kate and Florence
pgs. 224 - middle of 229
Florence and I noticed that our assigned pages are all from Anne's point of view and mind. Austin usually switches around from her personal view and then a character's mind. Anne is the only one thinking and everything is coming from her thoughts and seeing. "She had been used before to feel that he could not be always quite sincere, but now she saw insincerity in every thing" (226)
Group: Hannah and Rosemary
Notable/weird: "you pierce my soul" (Austen 245) this is a piece of the letter that Wentworth has written to Anne. He is expressing his deepest feelings; and the main reason to which I find this part to be "noteworthy" is the drastic change in tone of the letter in the first ending to his expression of verbal emotion in the 1st (alt) ending. Wentworth would never had been able to say something so passionate as "pierce my soul". His letter expresses his feelings intensely, and his verbal speech is more modestly executed.
Group: Mari and Alec
Pgs.261-mid 265
Anne and Wentworth make eye contact, "His colour was varying and he was looking at her with all the Power & Keenness, which she beleived no other eyes than his, possessed" (P.263) After making eye contact, they are reunited and brought back to everything that had been lost between them. Anne and Wentworth never really make much eye contact throughout the book, since Wentworth would mostly ignore her half the time they were around each other. It's noteworthy in that after this event, they both show their weaknesses and emotions for each other and reunite as a couple, which they could not do before. Wentworth finally decided that there is no one else for him besides her.
My partner and I seemed to notice that there is more dialogue expressed that allows characters to show satire instead of the narrator. Also, we have noticed that Ann was more cheerful, expressive and happy than sad. Actually the characters are all happy and cheerful due to the comedic elements expressed.
Stephanie and I noticed in our pages the use of exclamation marks - usually used in free indirect discourse - and physical reaction to feelings. We believe this allows us to see more of the characters true feelings rather than what has been said, like Aaron said when pointing out Anne's blushing. This gives the readers a cue of true feelings as well as adds to suspense of their awaited relationship.
Group: Monique and Roselaine
Pages: 255- mid 261
At first, we keyed in on this small sentence: "The only one among them, whose opposition of feeling could excite any serious anxiety, was Lady Russell." We found it odd that after all the reconciliations of misunderstandings and such, Anne would still see Lady Russell's influence as strong enough to "excite" the same feelings that tore this couple apart in the first place.
Upon finding the bigger picture, however, I found something more to mention. The entire chapter we were assigned and on to the conclusion of the book is entirely written in FID. Not to reach outside our page boundaries, but Austen begins the final chapter(254) directly addressing her readers telling us, "This may be bad morality to conclude with, but I believe it to be the truth" I haven't found this sentence in the alternate ending yet, but this does signify some break from "generic expectations" and leads to more questions concerning her decision to change her endings.
Also, we thought it a good starting point to grab a key word and run with it: perception. We OED-ed it first and chose the best def. to apply to the novel.
Perception is describes as "a direct recognition of something", but also as an interpretation or impression based on opinion. An objective and subjective definition for one word, both we believe have been employed by the characters and on occasion, the narrator of Persuasion.
Jeff and Ivan
We were looking at Sir Walter and saw his views and statements as one that an aristocrat would say. On page 255, Walter "was very much struck by [Wentworth’s] personal claims, and felt that [Wentworth’s} superiority of appearance might not be unfairly balanced against his superiority of rank." Sir Walter is an Aristocrat and Austen is showing that maybe some people who aren't in a high societal rank are just as good or deserving as those who are. Also, on page 255 and 267 (in both the revised and original endings), it is brought up that Lady Russell realizes she was wrong about Wentworth and Sir Walter (Sir Walter fooled her with his etiquette and his place in society, and Wentworth's lack of manners made her think he was inferior). This is basically Austen speaking, saying that those in an Aristocracy might not be the most deserving people of that position
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