Vanity Fair
Meg makes her own dress, uses simple flowers, and refuses a procession. Aunt March is scandalized. Meg wants to look and be her familiar self rather than perform a bride for an audience that already has opinions. The ceremony is small on purpose. It is evidence that the Moffat fortnight did not get the last word.
Key Insight
The most radical social act in the book is not a speech. It is a party planned to the scale of the actual life. Resistance that lasts long enough eventually stops looking like resistance. It looks like taste.
