I just finished reading Mansfield Park from Jane Austen and I better write what I think about it now before I forget what I intended to say about it. haha... First of all this book is very different to her earlier novels like Pride and Prejudice. First of all Fanny Price (the main character) doesn't have a strong character unlike previous characters from other novels and she is used by everyone for their own convenience. It mainly shows the difference in economical status and how certain nasty attitudes were overlooked if you had enough money. But even if it starts like this, eventually her uncle and his family that used to think lowly of her learn that certain things that they did to her were wrong. Her only ally, her cousin Edmund, is the only one that defends her but it's eventually blinded by Miss Crawford and her brother that arrive to make their lives difficult.
There are a lot of nasty characters that you just can't stand and make you want to close the book, and the beginning of the book sometimes gets to test your patience with its boredoom and the annoying ways they treat Fanny. But as the book goes on, the family finally learn to appreciate her for all that she has went through. Nasty characters are put in their place and everything has a happy ending. And it's also the first of her books that leaves you with very important moral wisdoms.
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