"And do you really love him quite well enough? Oh, Lizzy, do any thing rather than marry without affection"(361).
Jane is marrying Mr. Bingley because they are in love. Bingley and Jane have endured a lot before they reached their engagement. Going through the hard times, being apart from each other and unsure of each other's feelings makes their being together that much better. Jane knows what it is like to be in love and she does not want Elizabeth in a mercenary marriage where she does not love her husband. Mr. Bennet supports Jane's hopes of Elizabeth marrying for love: "you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband"(364). If Elizabeth did not love her husband she would not be happy, and her husband would not be either. Elizabeth speaks her mind, and when she did not love Mr. Darcy she was extremely disrespectful of him. If she planned on marrying him purely for mercenary means she would have been stuck with a man whom she detested and he would have been with a wife who disrespected him. Jane and Mr. Bennet both love Elizabeth very much and want her to be sure of her decision to marry Mr. Darcy so she can live with both comfort and happiness, not just practicality.
Mrs. Bennet's reaction to Lizzy's news of the engagement, Mrs. Bennet:
a.) seeing her daughters so happy made "her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman"(372).
b.) had thoughts of "how rich and great" (365), Lizzy will become
c.) was simply "unable to utter a syllable"(365).
d.) "was extremely indignant on the marriage"(375).
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