Most telling, however, is that despite all of her fervor for marriage. She is constantly saying the wrong thing, getting drunk, and gossiping.
She is a hypochondriac who takes to her bed when Lydia runs away, but pops out of bed ready to party the moment she finds out Wickham has been prevailed upon to marry her wayward child. There are so many moments of absolute foolishness out of Mrs. Lady Catherine and her husband’s estate would belong to their only daughter. Austen even made sure to point out the stupidity of the entail by contrasting the Bennet’s situation with that of Lady Catherine’s family. Since she and her husband had barely lived within their means, they had nothing to give their children. Because she’d birthed five daughters and no son, her family’s estate was entailed away from her girls and would be inherited by a male cousin. Bennet’s ceaseless quest for matrimony wouldn’t be so necessary if it weren’t for the patriarchal society she lived in.
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