Jane Austin...

[joceannora]

did not know how to finish a novel!

She's treated Lizzie and Darcy, and Fanny and Edmund horribly bad. Could it have killed her to properly write a last chapter? With all the 'shews' and 'connexxions' and other uppity Old English words one has to tread through in a bastille worth of conversations and letters and such; the build-up, the calamity, the evil minded shenanigans and goings on!

It's like she was late for her nap or something, "Oh fuck it, I'll just end with, 'and they got together' and it will be a best seller!"

Pfff

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[ajollypyruvate]

She probably had something deep and meaningful and life-transforming in mind and her cats wouldn't leave her alone. "All right, jesusfuck, *scribbles "happily ever after"* yes, yes, I'm coming to feed you goddamn."

[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

THAT'S IT!!






Hee!

[ajollypyruvate]

She has all my sympathy.

[thenea.livejournal.com]

I agree she did not do well by Fanny and Edmund. So much so, that I often feel that Fanny was just a consolation prize to Edmund. It's one of my least favorite Austen novels.

I'm not sure that I agree on Lizzie and Darcy. There is a little more there. We get the scene of them discussing how they fell for each other. We get some description of what they each told their relatives, and how some of the people in their lives faired as the years went by. And there is a lot that is covered in the rest of the novel that JA probably didn't feel the need to rehash. There is a little more that could have been said, but I think we all also have pictures in our minds that might have not gone the way JA would have written it. *shrug*

[ms-issicran.livejournal.com]

I did have to admit to myself that it was modern moviemaking that had spoiled me to how things should end.

I just kept reading and thinking I'd get to a very meaningful and emotional conversation between Fanny and Edmund...what a downer.