DD similarly feels that much of it is tremendously overwrought... you know, that originally Jane Austen was probably not actually thinking terribly hard about the "symbolism" of particular word-choices, or anything. KWIM? On some level, it's like looking for deep meaning in Louie-louie or going into numerology with the phone book or something.
It reminds me of the first time I answered a question something like "Why did the author write this story?"
"To make money by selling books" was not the right answer, as I quickly learned.
