Question

The concern with getting daughters married into good families pervades Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and forms a large part of the social mannerisms that the novel mocks. In which this excerpt does one of the Bennet parents make an ironically false claim about having gone to great lengths to achieve that goal?

Answer 1

In Pride and Prejudice, a Bennet parent makes an ironically false claim about having gone to great lengths to marry off their daughters into good families.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Pride and Prejudice, the concern of getting daughters married into good families is a central theme. One of the Bennet parents makes an ironically false claim about having gone to great lengths to achieve this goal in the following excerpt:

"Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley and talked of Mrs. Darcy may be guessed.

This claim is ironic because Mrs. Bennet's efforts to marry off her daughters are often excessive and misguided, and her excitement about their marriages does not necessarily lead to their happiness or the establishment of advantageous connections.

Answer 2

At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything.