As I already told are a huge fan of Jane Austen from the age of 14 years, when I found out at school Pride and Prejudice and I finished in two days.
I read his major novels (plus Lady Susan) several times, and as always in great novels are "grown up with me." If the first time I was more attention to history, now are the choices of the characters and their attitudes to hit more.
Mansfield Park is a novel that I have heard in many ways. There are those who particularly loves the sweet and submissive Fanny, but whoever is a bit 'nasty, bigoted and not very lively.
Until a few years ago I was incredibly nice. Her sweetness, her shyness I touched.
Strangely this reading (which is more than one year from the previous year) made me change my mind. Fanny certainly I am not unsympathetic, but there were times when I wanted to take her by the shoulders, shake and say "Come on, wake up! spin 'Aunt Norris, for' your stuff and take Edward to Miss Crawford! Well, you waiting for?". A very unexpected reaction from me.
Maybe Fanny is a part of me that some years ago was more important, and that in recent times has changed. But I'm very curious to know what I will bring the next readings.
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