Chapter 11 of The
Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen justified what I already thought about
gender in that time period. Females and males were both expected to play
certain roles, and these roles would eventually allow them to marry, or have a
perfect “union” (pg.165) Every woman was expected to play her gender role, in
order to catch the best man she could. However, if a woman was from a lower
class it was assumed she could never get a man like Mr. Darcy or Mr. Bingley.
In Jane Austen’s writing she often broke these stereotypical gender roles, for Mr.
Darcy married Elizabeth and Mr. Bingley married Jane.
-Kelly Keelon
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