But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it." Only because her family is not "well settled" in society, there is no chance of ever marring her. Even though the society class "rule" still exists today, it is not as followed as before. Today you can find a very wealthy man marrying a woman who as almost nothing.
The novel demonstrates how money manipulates everything; women marry men that they are not in love with simply in order to gain financial security, like Charlotte. The economic failure of Mr. Bennet's estate leaves his daughters in a poor financial situation, which both requires them to marry and makes it more difficult to marry well. Clearly, Austen believes that woman are at least as intelligent and capable as men, and considers their inferior status in society to be unjust. Through the plot of the novel it is clear that Austen wants to show how Elizabeth is able to be happy by refusing to marry for financial purposes and only marrying a man whom she truly loves and esteems. Elizabeth is like most of the women in today's society. Most if them marry only for love and no other reason; but there is always those that still search for the money.
How to get a husband, and preferably a rich one, is the central theme of the novel. Yet in Austen's hands, under the costume of comedy, the subject is transformed into a serious and understanding exposure of the role of women in her society. For the women of her time marriage on any terms was often the only escape from a depressing life in poverty. Around this crucial issue of marriage she laces sub themes of social criticism, making fun of snobbery, hypocrisy, the hurtful gossip of respectable housewives and the disrespect of ladies of title and money. Darcy at one point says a comment to his sisters about the Bennet's because they are discussing the fact that they have no social standards: "But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world" (Chapter 8).