Sense reacts slowly but rationally to events. Sensibility reacts emotionally and instinctively to events. Sense and Sensibility is the tale of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who embody the two senses. Elinor represents sense. Marianne represents sensibility. When both of them appear to have lost the suitors who they anticipated marrying, they react accordingly, preparing the way for a comical take on 19th-century country life. But beneath the satirical humor of Sense and Sensibility, there is a magical story of two sisters who suddenly only have themselves and each other, but learn just how much that means.