# Robert Ferrars — Sense and Sensibility character guide

> Robert Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Robert Ferrars, Robert

**First appearance:** 0033-xxxiv

## Snapshot

Edward's vain, foppish younger brother, whose careless self-importance and impulsive choices quietly reshape the fates of everyone around him.

## Who they are

Robert Ferrars moves through fashionable society as the favored, frivolous son, absorbed in trifles and his own consequence while his elder brother Edward bears the family's displeasure. His vanity and want of principle make him the kind of man who takes what he wants without weighing the cost to others. When his choices collide with Edward's long entanglement, the consequences ripple through the Dashwood sisters' hopes, making Robert a small but pivotal agent of change in the novel's middle stretch.

## In the story

### [Chapter XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/sense_and_sensibility_se/chapters/xli)

Mocks Edward's new role as a clergyman with a small parsonage, but later feigns sympathy for his brother's situation.

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