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by thrway123
852 days ago
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Lizzie was joking about falling in love with the Pemberley estates. She fell in love through seeing him through the eyes of the people who knew him best. However, marriage was primarily a financial arrangement back then. That is true. |
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Well, obviously we shouldn't get too hung up on what a fictional character thought - but I stand by my recollection.
Just googling it, and finding this page: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride/quotes/symbol/pemberley...
I think you can say the last quote on that page is the character joking (although I'm not sure I read it that way); but the second last quote was the one I was referring to, and is in the narrator's voice.
But, look, while reading that did change my perspective on the story, I also don't want to interpret things too cynically; I'm not saying the character of Elizabeth should be read as purely seeking advantage; just that they were clearly evaluating marriage on a combination of advantage, and 'love', with a lot of weight on the former; and all of Austen made a lot more sense when I realised that.