"When I first met Jane… I got everything wrong.I was 14 and reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time I hit it off with George Wickham (OMG!) . So I got quite angry with Jane for making him a villain. OK, Mr Darcy was a great catch for Lizzy, that’s undeniable, but why couldn’t Jane let her at least meet George Wickham at Netherfield and dance with him, flirt a bit and then marry her well-off, dashing baronet? Closing the book at the words THE END , my disappointment was not completely over yet.Then I read Sense and Sensibility and I was mesmerized by John Willoughby’s romantic charm and passionate ways. Again, Jane had played a trick on me: he was the villain in the novel . Once the two heroines were in London, I happened to be extremely disappointed like Marianne. Of course, I didn’t risk my life and I even kind of accepted the excuses he alleged to Elinor while Marianne is very ill. I so wanted Willoughby to be my hero! Jane must have laughed a lot at my naivety". (...)
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