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My aim in this paper is to motivate and clarify the idea that there is a tight connection between our (felt) emotional responses and our evaluative concepts especially in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. Accepting a given suggestion that the most influential academic reading of Marianne often do violence to the inevitable variability of our emotional experience, this paper further suggests that there are of two main types of normative character of emotions: “intelligibility” and “reasonability.” Acknowledging that such a separation is inevitable for a deeper understanding of our emotions would give us a chance to avoid a confusion about whether a particular emotion is reasonable or unreasonable, without failing to capture the normative complexity that emotions actually display. Considering that the norms governing emotions have a elastic character, this paper concludes that emotions have the constitutive functions. Experiencing a certain emotion itself (i.e. remorse) can contribute to rebuilding value that has been lost in the evaluative world.