![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bennet and the other families in the neighborhood - that a daughter who has no fortune must be found a well-to-do husband to look after her, which Mrs. There's only one truth that matters to Mrs. We might expect the next sentence to describe an aristocratic Colin Firth lookalike galloping full-tilt toward the Bennets' house at Longbourn.īut prefacing that clause with "It is a truth universally acknowledged" implies that's only what most people say they believe - after all, if everybody really does accept it, why bother to mention the fact? In fact, as Austen says in the following sentence, nobody really cares what the wealthy man himself thinks he needs. In her book Why Jane Austen, Rachel Brownstein points out that if the novel had begun simply with "A single man possessed of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," we'd snuggle in for a stock romantic story. The sentence may look like a truism, but the first part actually undermines the second. Book Reviews Jane Austen's 'Pride And Prejudice' At 200 ![]()
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