Pride and Prejudice

In Ms. Hegeman class we are reading a book called Pride & Prejudice, and it is surrounded by several themes such as family, wealth, inheritance, love and marriage. One thing that stood out to me about this book or the time period of the book was that if a wealthy man had all daughters and no son when he dies his wealth or money does not get passed down to his girls, rather it will go to his nephew if he has any or any boy/male figure in his family. In the book marrying a rich man was a must for some females . Mrs. Bennet wanted her daughter Elizabeth to marry Mr. Collins who was rich and was going to have her fathers house when he dies. Elizabeth refused to marry him and her mother was not happy at all. She got so upset that she decided not to talk to Elizabeth and called her ungrateful. This to me is just crazy because as a mom she shouldn't teach her daughter that money comes before love in a marriage. The fact that she doesn't want to speak to her daughter shows that wealth is too important. I respect Elizabeth decision for rejected the marriage because whats the point of marrying someone if ya barely know each let alone love each other. I understand that Mrs. Bennet want the best for her daughters and want them to be well taken care of, but that is just stupid to turn on your daughter just because she doesn't want to marry. So far the book is good tho, you get to see the different perspectives on marriage, and you also see which characters value marriage and which one just want to marry based on money and wealth.