What is the use of the character of Margaret in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen?I have to write an essay on this question and am dyng for...

You are correct in your assumption that Margaret's character
provides entertainment, color and flavor to the story. After all, Margaret is still a child when
the events at Norland develop and the situation among the Dashwood women is way too pitiful to
allow for every single character to dwell in their misery.

Margaret
opens a window into the side of the Dashwood women which is still vital, happy, naive, and
mischievous. She does stir and move the action with her innuendos and her innocent blurts of
information. She is basically the happy medium between Elinor's sense and Marianne's sensibility.
She also allows the tense and stuffy atmosphere in the Dashwood household to soften to her
innocence and her natural curiosity.