![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bennet’s status as a land-owner (Austen, 39). Bennet gains a place to live and the connections that come with Mr. Bennet gains a wife of “mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper,” while Mrs. Bennet marries a step above herself socially. Bennet owns land, it can be seen that Mrs. Gardiner, is described as “gentlemanlike” and “greatly superior to his sister as well by nature as education,” he is still a “man who live by trade” and therefore of a lower social class (Austen, 233). Bennet’s relations are of a less-distinguished class, as evidenced by her sister Mrs. Though nothing is told to the reader of his background, we know that Mrs. Bennet is of a more refined class than his wife, as he owns land. Through this example of an imbalanced and poorly matched marriage, Austen addresses the importance of entering into a marriage based on more than just a shallow attraction and the appeal of economic gain. Bennet’s point of view, as well as through the general actions of Mrs. Bennet’s perspective, the reader is able to gain an impression of their relationship through Mr. Though the narrator does not focus on Mrs. Bennet’s marriage is most certainly a marriage of unequal minds. ![]()
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