Lucy Steele's Love For Elinor Dashwood

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lucy steele plays a major role in sense and sensibility as she is the climax of the plot as she had already been engaged to edward for 5 years which conflicts elinors love for edward as welll as edwards love for elinor. lucy steele's character is a support character for elinor dashwood due to the fact that elinor is able to show her sense while lucy tells her about her engagement to edward and elinor also gets to show composure when telling edward about the help that colonel brandon was giving to edward and lucy so that they may be wed without many issues as before. auste utilizes lucy in such a way as to give edward a double identity by showing that edward has secrets as well as showing some conflict in edwards character as well by submerging

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