Any kindly thoughts you may have had regarding Willoughby can now be kicked to the curb. A pox upon him! My goodness. Well, now you know why he's my most-despised villain in all of Austen's books. (Not most-hated -- that's John Thorpe from
Northanger Abbey.) I mean, it's bad enough to have jilted Marianne in favor of a rich heiress, but now we learn that he seduced, impregnated, and abandoned another seventeen-year-old girl. Boy, did Marianne ever dodge a bullet!
And at least she's being ni...
Published on April 12, 2021 18:08