
In these pages, Mr. Collins finally gives up his chase for Elizabeth, but he is not satisfied. Luckily for him, Miss Lucas came by to visit her dear friend and caught sight of him. As a woman, she is very agreeable and nice; however, she is very plain and is in the same financial state as the Bennet family. Any marriage that could provide her with a comfortable home would be a wish, or in this case, chance she would be willing to take. The fact that Mr. Collins would choose Elizabeth's best friend could only mean one of three things: 1) it was love at first sight [not likely], 2) he was so desperate to be married that he chose anyone else who was likely to have him, 3) as revenge to Elizabeth for refusing his proposal. Which of these motives led him to be with Charlotte we will never know, but we can each make inferences from the following information of the novel.
The couple united soon after Lizzy's rejection of Mr. Collins, and they married almost immediately after. Of course the whole Bennet family was invited to the wedding, but was it a slap in the face to Elizabeth that her friend was marrying the man that had proposed to her not much time before? Could they continue to have the same inseparable relationship? Im sure if Elizabeth really did not like the man, then she would have no problem with her best friend marrying him, and if she really loved her friend then she would want whats best for her which would clearly be to marry, seeing as to how she was already beginning to age.
Mrs. Bennet was furious with the matter. She felt ultimate jealousy which took over her body whenever they came to visit, "she regarded her with jealous abhorrence. Whenever Charlotte came to see them she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and whenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr. Collins, was convinced that they were talking of the Longbourne estate." The book mentions many times, and it is quite obvious by her actions, that Mrs. Bennet worries about the time of her and Mr. Bennet's death. Where would her children go? Where would they stay? Would they be ruined? Would they be married? Would they have any other chance to be married? These question would haunt her for the rest of her life until she saw each of her daughters happily married and settled.
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