... view of his own warehouses." "Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?" Darcy pointedly asks. Still worse than the "situation of your mother's family," Darcy notes, is "that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself [Elizabeth's mother], by your younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father." Although Elizabeth begins Darcy ... lose the opportunity of fixing him." When Charlotte acts on her beliefs and "fixes" the ridiculous Collins, Elizabeth sees Charlotte as "disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem"--"a most...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , 23). Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. As Hazel Jones notes, there were many women who acted similarly, privileging a steady income and home over the possibility of happiness.6 If happiness was found in marriage it was usually just an added bonus ... seeks to stress Jane's unsuitability as "not rich enough, or grand enough" (116). Jane's beauty benefits her desirability, however, and works to contest her social status. As Jones notes, beauty could greatly a...

• Word Count: 5516
• Approx Pages: 22
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate