Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters.
Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon
for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the
other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic
feeling. True love can only be felt by the young, of course.
And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how
can you ever expect to recover?
(Retrieved and adapted from http://www.oupbookworms. com/downloads/pdf/movielinks/BOOKWORMSMovies- 5.pdf. Access on September 23rd, 2013)
From the statement "Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions" (lines 2 and 3), it is possible to assume that:
