But when Mr Bennet gets in the way of her plan by not visiting Mr Bingley, Mrs Bennet shows that she gets very annoyed. It is very important to Mrs Bennet that Mr Bingley comes over so that she can try and get one of her daughters married to him.
One instance when she uses this excuse is when Mr Bennet refuses to speak to Mr Bingley and invite him over. Mrs Bennet cannot accept not having her way and uses the blackmail, ‘you have no compassion for my nerves’ when she is not granted what she wants. For this reason Mrs Bennet feels that she needs to secure her daughters future, making sure that they are settled. The law says that the next male relative has to inherit everything. Maybe she wants them to marry rich because when Mr Bennet dies they will not inherit the house or any money because they are girls.
Perhaps it demonstrates her true love for her daughters. However, her actions could be seen in a very different light. She is so determined that she even wants Elizabeth to settle for marrying Mr Collins. Their barely surviving relationship should have shown Mrs Bennet the defects of a marriage for money and convenience, but she has in fact not learnt anything. Their love-hate relationship relies upon her gullibility and moodiness, and his love of teasing her which keeps Mr him going. This demonstrates an element of foolishness especially as she of all people should know about the problems of such an ‘unsuccessful marriage.’ This, along with the evidence of Mrs Bennet’s silliness seems to suggest that Mr Bennet married Mrs Bennet for convenience and for her looks rather than for love and her personality. Mrs Bennet is already planning for one of her daughters to marry Mr Bingley, even though she has never met him and doesn’t know anything about him apart from the he is ‘a single man of large fortune four or five thousand a year.’ She says, ‘What a fine thing for our girls!’ This clearly shows that Mrs Bennet aims to get her daughters married to wealthy men, not minding if her daughter’s love them or if they are nice people or not. The first event in the entire book is Mrs Bennet gossiping about a young man of good fortune, Mr Bingley, who has just moved into the area. From the very beginning of the novel, Mrs Bennet comes across as a woman obsessed about marriage.
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