Sacrifice and selfishness in Sense and Sensibility

My third paper, written on Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

"Instead, Austen begins by identifying each sister with her respective quality, and as the novel progresses, each quality is invested with the personality and behavior of its respective sister, and so becomes more complex. For example, the dichotomy of sense and sensibility also becomes one of sacrifice and selfishness. If one has sense, one will see the necessity of sacrificing one’s own happiness or release for the sake of others. But how does this affect the happiness of the character with sense? This dichotomy and its association with the titular dichotomy creates an approach to one of the main problems of the story, of deciding which sister is more admirable, and which sister’s philosophy is best."