A review by jbrown2140
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

4.0

As pessimistic as I remembered it - it's amusing to me so many Austen fans don't like this because they think Fanny is "weak." I've never understood people who don't like books because they don't "like" the characters in them, as if an author's chief obligation is to tell you a story about someone you "like."

I don't think it's anachronistic to say this is a novel about colonialism and consumerism, and their dual relationship with art. Perhaps Fanny seems "weak" to so many because she opts out of all of those things.