Me: 🧍🏼♀️
My BF: Everything ok?
Me: JK is naked. 🥴
My BF: Like, actually naked?
Me: He might as well be?! 🫨🫠
*a few minutes later*
Me: 🧍🏼♀️ *wails pathetically*
My BF: Still thinking about shirtless JK?
Me: YES.
My BF: *nods sagely*
Accuracy matters in Austen because society itself is a central character. To not even attempt to portray the society on which she comments defangs her brilliance.
Notably, this is why Clueless is such an excellent adaptation.