Mansfield Park

R: After reading each of Jane Austen’s books, we’ve been choosing one, or more, movie/TV adaptations to watch and discuss. There were a few choices for Mansfield Park but this one seemed to be the most faithful rendition. In almost every case, I don’t feel that movie adaptations can possibly do justice to Austen’s works.… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters.) S: Well! After the last section, I was not quite expecting all that Chapter 46 contains! Crawford leaving Fanny for Jullia? Sure! Crawford changing so drastically that Fanny ends up loving him? That would work as well. Crawford seducing young Susan? Possibly even that. Crawford leaving… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: Oh, Mr. Crawford! I suppose if Fanny was actually interested in Mr. Crawford’s advances his unannounced visit might have endeared her more fully to him, but instead it’s a source of agitation for her, mainly because of her family. It’s… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: I was worried about how things would go when Mary Crawford finally gets to have her conversation with Fanny, but it was better than I expected. While she seems to believe her brother’s feelings for Fanny to be sincere, she… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: Oh my! I feel almost as shocked as Fanny at Mr. Crawford’s proposal! If we hadn’t been convinced of his attachment to her in the previous chapter I would think the same as Fanny, that his proposal is absurd and… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: Apparently, Edmund does still have hopes of marrying Miss Crawford. I shake my head at him. I think as the readers we can hear the death knell of that relationship. Or the rest of the story is going to be… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: Chapter 21 caught my interest for a couple of reasons. I was really surprised at Edmund’s disparaging comments about Mr. Rushworth. I don’t remember him saying anything like this previously, so it seemed like a sudden turnaround. In a similar… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: We left Fanny visibly shaken from her encounter with everyone trying to make her do something she was unwilling to do, and I’m so happy that she has a room of her own to retreat to, even if it was… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) S: Oh, Edmund! He is certainly not seeing what the reader is seeing regarding Miss Crawford. Her jab at the clergy he takes as a joke, yet I am certain she is as uninterested in the Church as he is interested… Read more

(This conversation will contain spoilers for the current chapters and possibly for future chapters.) R: Maria’s intended joins their little band as Tom Bertram goes off somewhere, and we start here with a conversation that I frankly couldn’t care less about. The end result is that everyone is going to go off to see a… Read more