Apart from the overarching theme of marriage deals, social status, and interpersonal relationships, Austen interweaves characters and community into liminality and personal growth journeys. Consequently, this personal self-reflection and rectification will result in the heroines instilling social change. Austen places the Dashwood sisters in a position where their personal growth is urgent, setting them amidst a social world that is starkly different from their previous one. Marianne is the more innocent and lively of the sisters while Elinor adopts a realistic approach toward their new life and territory. Mariannes journey commences with love followed by disappointment, in the journey of transition to find stability, Marianne achieves personal growth in developing skills honed by an adult. This journey is initiated not just by self-reflection and awareness but being able to adapt to the constantly changing world and strict social norms. Whilst interacting socially with other characters, more than building a stable social status, the heroine develops a strong sense of self, realizing and rectifying her flaws and restoring a good personality. She is a character that lacks a sense of propr
iety and comprehension of situations, unlike her sister Elinor. She is portrayed as a highly emotional, aesthetic-centric young woman who is flawed. In spite of being sensible, she couldnt moderate her emotions and sense of curiosity, which often affected the way she treated others. Mariannes abilities were, in many respects, quite equal to Elinors. She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation (Austen, 6). Hence Marianne rather than acting under a system of controlled emotions during social interactions, acts on her belief of convictions, allowing sentimentality to precede her actions. She thus fails to understand the norms that dictate the world and its interactions, developing an artificial sense of the setting born out of her imagination. Her playfulness is reflected in how she is overwhelmingly straightforward and unfiltered in expressing her emotions, making it almost impossible for her to identify deceit. This is mirrored through her overflow of expressions on her face making blatant her emotions an agony [&] affect[ing] every feature, her naïve sensibility making the narrative playful yet leading her downfall (Faucon, 205).