Chapter 9 showed me that everybody in Pride and Prejudice cares too much about their money. Whether you have money or not, puts you in a certain social class and a lot of people don’t like to venture out of their social class to meet different people. People pride themselves about how much money they have like Mr. Darcy, and they like to flaunt it. If you don’t have a certain amount of money then you are looked down upon as less of a person because money means everything to these people. This chapter gave me a better understanding to the value of the English money. When I was reading the book and they kept saying “pounds,” I wasn’t sure exactly how much money that was in American dollars. So this chapter gave me a better understanding of how much money these people actually have and I was able to relate and visualize where everybody stood in society.
Giving this information about how money is used and distributed really shows why some of the character, such as Mr. Darcy, are valued so highly despite their lack of personality. This has changed a lot from then to now because money is not such an out-spoken subject. Money also influences marriage, power, and pride in people in Austen's book.
ReplyDeleteI agree that all of this information from chapter nine of Cambridge Companion was beneficial for my reading of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice. I now feel that I have a better understanding of the status of many of the characters. This helps me to determine relationships, real or not. It also shows how the amount of money that you have really does place you in the society.
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