I really liked how Edward Copeland said that women were very interested in men's fortune and always knew how much money they were making. He definitely made me feel that money was one of the main focuses in Jane Austen's books. He gave examples of earnings from 100 to above 4000 pounds a year, which helped me a lot to realize the difference between the characters and their fortune.
However, reading chapter 9 was quite confusing to me as the author was talking about 3 books of Jane Austen at the same time, while I only read Pride and Prejudice, so I had no idea was was going on in half of this chapter.
I agree with chapter nine being confusing when you have not yet read all of her books! And also that money was a very big part of who these people were back then and how money plays a role in many of Janes books.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you on how it really helped my understanding of different characters and their fortune. I thought it was interesting how the different amounts of money people had determined what they can have and can't. Everything in this book is surrounded by money. Their happiness, property, marriage, and rank is all determined by how much money you have. People don't marry for love its for money because if they have a lot of money they are in a higher social class and therefore they have more things and less to worry about which makes them happy. I also agree that it was confusing when the chapter talked about other books that we haven't read yet.
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