Summary on Sense and Sensibility When Mr. Dashwood dies,his house,Norland Park,passes directly to his only son John by his first wife while his second wife Mrs. Dashwood and their daughters,Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are left only a small income. Selfish John and his wife Fanny immediately take up their place as the new owners of Norland and during a visit to Norland,Fanny’s brother,Edward Ferrars forms an attachment with Elinor. Mrs. Dashwood soon moves her family to Barton Cottage where they meet Colonel Brandon and John Willoughby. Marianne is not pleased with Brandon as she considers him too old to be incapable of falling in love. She soon becomes infatuated with Willoughby,who seems to be a romantic lover but is in reality an unscrupulous fortune hunter. After his engagement to a young lady of large fortune,Willoughby deserts Marianne and makes her heartbreak. Under Colonel Brandon’s care,Marianne gradually falls deeply in love with him and learns to be sensible. In the meantime,after some distressing vicissitudes,Elinor,who is constant toward her lover,Edward,gets conjugal felicity. The whole story ends with the two happy marriages of the Dashwood sisters.