Persuasion starts after the end of a love story: Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth were briefly engaged eight years prior to the book's beginning. ... He falls back in love with her (or maybe just admits he's never stopped loving her) and she proves her steadfastness.
They forgive each other-he for her weakness and she for his hardness-and Wentworth will eventually throw himself on Anne's mercy in one of Austen's most romantic scenes, proclaiming himself "half agony, half hope." She takes him back, they marry, and all is happily ever after.
Why did this story, which is so happy, make me so sad? ... I was in limbo between Anne and Edith.
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