Moreover, the concept of the unattractiveness of loquacity and excessive expressionism is evident among attendees of the social events. At the dinner on Conduit Street, Elinor notes the “poverty” and “deficiency” of scintillating conversation despite the attendance of genteel persons. The “chief of their visitors” are absurdly talkative under the pretext of agreeableness, and John Dashwood “had not much to say for himself that was worth hearing, and his wife had still less” (233).When the ladies retreat to the drawing-room, the conversation continues to diminish in value for the mundane subject of “the comparative heights of Harry Dashwood, and Lady Middleton’s second son William” dominated the discussion (284). As the women excessively and
