hinglenkle

You’re completely right. I spoke incorrectly, but hold that Jane is a mouthpiece of the author who died unwed.

Bingley and Jane do wed though in a way largely in contrast to the rest of novels depictions of “the game”.

In the eleventh hour of the novel and in a more impulsive ceremony as a sort of ‘double marriage’ with Elizabeth and mr Darcy.

The bingley relationship is another example of the interpretation though because it appears the only one in the novel exhibiting “true love” and compatibility between both parties and is met with opposition from just about everyone else.

I was screamed down by an entire classroom in university for my interpretation of “pride and prejudice”; though I was one of only 5 of the 25 students who read it.

Jane Austen herself lived her life unwed, and the character whom shared her name in P&P also finishes the novel unwed.

It is my opinion that P&P is Austen’s way of saying “if these are the players and this is the game then I am uninterested in taking part”.

From this reading, instead of Mr Darcy being the perfect man he’s the perfect example of why Jane chose to forgo participation in the marriage practice of the day.

TFA’s focus on finances, I feel, is just another example of one such reason provided by Austen to highlight the insincere process.