[youngidiot]

I don’t have a good case. Seems my name might be fitting in this case. I just always found her to be too predictable - it was easy to figure out who would end up with whom.

[Borges]

Austen was the first person to treat marriage as something more than a sentimental climax. She dealt with it as a complex social and moral negotiation that reveals human character. She was also one of the greatest satirists to ever write in English.

[AnAmericanMother]

A fair observation, and quite true.

But you can usually see it coming in real life. What Austen is writing about is not who gets whom but how they get there. From one of KIpling's characters, who made the same observation:

‘I mean that ’er characters was no use! They was only just like people you run across any day. . . . an’ some’ow Jane put it down all so naked it made you ashamed'