Anne Steele is a character in Sense and Sensibility. She is the older sister of Lucy Steele and the sister-in-law of Robert Ferrars.
Character analysis[]
Anne Steele is a harmless creature who, however, somehow manages to do a lot of harm. She's silly and annoying, but, like many characters, she's not bad at heart. What she suffers from is a severe lack of both common sense and discretion, especially when it most matters – after all, it's Anne Steele who reveals Lucy and Edward's engagement to Mrs. Ferrars . While anyone else could have figured out that the revelation of the secret was none of her business, and a bad idea overall, Miss Steele genuinely thought she was doing the right thing. Really, Anne Steele is just well-intentioned ninny – she's at her best when she's allowed to gab on and on about "beaux" and gossip, and at her worst when she's entrusted with important information. She's not wicked (unlike her manipulative sister), she's simply not the brightest star in the sky.
Sense and Sensibility[]
Out of misguided belief that Fanny Dashwood and her mother would approve of Lucy's engagement to Edward, she reveal it to Fanny, only to be shouted at and got thrown out.
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