Sense and Sensibility In the 19th century, status and wealth were outrageously prioritized. Gender limitations were also involved in the society everyday. Class and gender difference made judgment, jealousy, appearance, gossip, and success all that mattered to the people living in that time period. Women could not own property, were expected to stay in the home, be polite and perform only the acceptable roles and behaviors which society would allow. Nothing could change or ease …showed first 75 words of 2456 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2456 total…century; in fact, it was one of the most prioritized things in everyone's life. Money and wealth cannot buy happiness, but most people seemed to think so. Love and status did not go together, people did not marry based on happiness and love. Wealth seemed to be the only thing that mattered to the majority of people. Snobbery and status was everything, and the only way to have high status was to marry for money.