Jane Austen - Guide to Understanding Women?
November 13, 2007 by Greg
Recently while chatting with one of my female friends, she brought up a rather startling insight.
“If you want to understand women Greg, you should read Jane Austen.”
I then began my informal research. At a movie later that day, I leaned in towards my female companion, “How many Jane Austen books have you read?”
She answered quickly, “Six, which is all of them.”
After several rounds of inquiring my literary aware female friends, it seems to be true that at least most women I know have read at least a few Jane Austen novels. I’m not entirely sure on the role of these books, but there must be some sort of secret in there. I will report back later if I find any more relevant information.
Have you any of you read a Jane Austen novel?
I only watched the Pride and Prejudice movie, which was originally a book by Jane Austen, and I totally loved it. Then again, I’m somewhat of a connaisseur of chick flicks(What can I say? They get to me). The thing I found in the Pride and Prejudice movie, and the follow up Jane Austen somewhat-biographical movie “Becoming Jane”, was that there was always some sort of huge barrier in between the two protagonists, male and female, from getting together(think Romeo and Juliet), and the whole story was dialogue and thoughts(and a suacy line here and there) revolving around the two of them managing that barrier. So yeah, think early 18th century opressed english-woman writing romance novels. Sexual tension? Forget about it.