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by fergal_reid
852 days ago
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> Lizzie was joking 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. |
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