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The Beatles 'Can' T Buy Me Love
Can’t Buy Me Love by The Beatles demonstrates Elizabeth Bennet rejection to Mr. Collins. In Chapter 19, Mr. Collins comes to the Bennets' estate to ask Elizabeth Bennet to be his wife. Unfortunately, he picked the one daughter who was most likely to disrespect his proposal, because his proposal was pictured as a “business offer” rather than a “marriage proposal”.
He gives Elizabeth a list of the reasons why he thinks she should marry him. He is also firmly convinced that marriage "will add very greatly to [his] happiness." He also said that Lady Catherine de Bourgh has twice "condescended to give [him] her opinion on this subject." She advised Mr. Collins to"[f]ind such a woman as" he is able, bring his potential wife to meet her, and then

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