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from "Sense and Sensibility"
Marianne is one of the two protagonists in Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Although she lives in England at the beginning of the 19th century, a time and place where marriage is very much a business, and involves family and rank as much as it involves the compatibility of two people, she has very strong opinions about her future husband.

from "The House of Mirth"
Wharton's The House of Mirth is set in New York City nearly 100 years later, in the 1890s. Because it deals with society's elite, the social expectations are nearly as restrictive as the ones in the earlier work. Lily Barton expresses her views about what a woman must do to survive in her world.

Which BEST summarizes the difference in how these characters view marriage?

A. Neither character has a clear understanding of what marriage is like.

B. Both women wish they could marry for love, but in the end they have to make a match that will support their families and maintain their rank in society.

C. Marianne is a romantic and wants a fairy tale husband who sees the world like she does. Lily is a realist who knows that women must marry for money to remain respectable in the eyes of society.

D. Lily is a romantic and wants a fairy tale husband who sees the world like she does. Marianne is a realist who knows that women must marry for money to remain respectable in the eyes of society.