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What is the problem Jane Austen is trying to help her niece resolve in “On Making an Agreeable Marriage”?

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How to handle her suitor if she doesn’t want to commit to marrying him.

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The problem that Jane Austen is trying to help her niece resolve in “On Making an Agreeable Marriage” is how to handle her suitor if she doesn’t want to commit to marrying him. Jane Austen writes a letter to her niece Fanny and tells her about the pros and cons of marriage. According to Jane Austen, her niece is still very young and has to avoid a mistake many young women make, marry the first suitor. Austen tells her to be sure that she loves the man before marrying him because it is difficult to endure a marriage without affection.

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