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“How can you be so tiresome. You must know that I am thinking if his marrying one of them.”(2)

This quote shows how Mrs. Bennet is already thinking of marrying her daughters to a man she does not know well. She is talking to Mr. Bennet and telling him that he should already know about her plan. This information shows how it was a priority for women to get married back then so that they could be taken care of. Foreshadowing

2. “You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves…Mr.Bingley might like you the best of the party.”(2)

In this passage Mr. Bennet is satirizing the fact that his wife might be chosen to marry instead of one of his daughters. The reader known Mrs. Bennet wants to marry her daughters, but Mr. Bennet takes it as a joke. Satire

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A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." (18)

Mary says this giving the readers an insight of what the book will include. She is explaining how pride and vanity are very well different, but what the book is really about. She explains how a person’s pride has so much control over them. The control it holds, will lead the characters to make dumb and silly things throughout the book. Foreshadowing

8.“My dear friend if you are not so compassionate as to dine today with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day’s tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel...CAROLINE BINGLEY” (20) Jane received this letter from Caroline Bingley. She is inviting Jane to dinner and it states that if Jane doesn’t attend, the sisters will hate each other forever. It is obviously not true, but it is her way of making sure Jane will attend. Caroline even tells her some men will be there to get more of Jane’s attention and make sure they are going.

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