Jane is the eldest Bennet daughter and is
considered quite pretty by all. Her seeming indifference to Bingley initially drives
him away from her (with the help of Darcy), but in the end the two are married.
Elizabeth often wishes she could be as good and happy as Jane is, as Jane never thinks
badly of anyone.
he oldest and most
beautiful of the Bennet daughters, Jane has a good heart and a gentle nature. As
Elizabeth's confidant, Jane helps to keep her sister's tendency to be judgmental in
check by offering positive interpretations of negative situations. Jane's desire to see
only the best in people becomes rather extreme at times, as in her disbelief that
Wickham could be a liar, but she is not so entrenched in her world view that her opinion
cannot be changed. Take, for example, her relationship with Caroline Bingley. When Jane
finally recognizes Miss Bingley's insincerity, she stops making excuses for her and does
not pursue the friendship. However, when she and Miss Bingley become sisters-in-law,
Jane's good nature causes her to receive Miss Bingley's friendly overtures with more
responsiveness than Miss Bingley deserves.
Although Jane enters into one of the happiest and most
successful marriages in the novel, her relationship with Bingley is a rather static one.
Just as she is consistently good and kind, her feelings and regard for Bingley never
falter or change. She feels sorrow when he leaves, of course, but that does not diminish
her love for him. Their relationship, while pleasant, is not marked by the range of
emotions that Elizabeth and Darcy feel for one another. Her marriage, then, is favorable
because she and Bingley married for love and are compatible, but it is not quite ideal
because it lacks the depth found in Elizabeth and Darcy's
marriage.
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