In the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, she is always talking about how in that time the women always were set up with someone to marry. She talks about how the mother of Elizabeth Bennet wants her daughters to be married to someone with money. To Austen in the book I honestly think that for a woman to respectable is the most important thing for a woman in order to marry. I say this because even though women had to be beautiful to marry into money they also had to be a respectable woman. Jane and Elizabeth were both respectable women and they both attracted men of the upper class. Jane attracted Mr. Bingley and Elizabeth attracted Mr. Darcy. When Mr. Darcy was proposing to Elizabeth he said that she was a very respectable woman and that she was beautiful but I honestly think that having a respectable woman is more important than beauty when it comes to marriage. 

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