austen's description of the comfort family brings, via fanny price in mansfield park, may be one of the best explanations of why there's no place like home. fanny is presented with two options when a man she doesn't love begins pursuing her romantically. her uncle, whose home fanny lived in from maybe age 8, says she can marry the suitor or go back to her filthy childhood home and destitute family. when she tells him she may choose home, her cousin and best friend edmond quickly, disbelievingly asks her why."to be home again," she tells him. "to be loved by family, to feel affection without fear or restraint, and to feel myself the equal of those that surround me."
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