My thoughts on, Waiting Together: Pride and Prejudice Bye
Nina Auerbach. The two parts of the article I would like to spend most of this
blog post discussing the Bennett estate and the point made here about it not
really existing. As I pointed out in class, I believe this was done on purpose,
unlike some other the points that are read into this text. I think this is very
practical to Ms. Austin and, while it was probably done on purpose, it may be merely
a comment on the times her and the story existed in. The idea of a house full
of women and an old man really has n master. For were Mr. Bennett to die the
women would be moved, unless Mr. Collins stepped in with other arrangements,
and the property, well that would be up to Collins. The house then is like a ghost
waiting for some mortal body that may take hold and make it real.
The second point made by Ms. Auerbach is that, of the titles
name, waiting. The women are waiting for their fate, their future, their,
whatever. The text from the book that I will use here to make this point a bit
better is that of, “that men are the domestic presence in a home”. For both Ms.
Austin and Ms. Auerbach make clear, men run the show here and women are left to
wait until the pieces fall where they may. We have the perspective of
hindsight, so we seemed to have moved from women have no place until men deem
it so and men are the home maker and chose a wife to provide filler for it. To
women are the home makers and often choose their men. The women are for all
intents and purpose in charge of the home, it finances and child rearing and so
on. To now where women can be completely independent and may chose any one of
these roles. And men, well men are still men with the responsibities they had
since well before this book was written. They shall make a living and provide
for wife and family. My how we have progressed. This is an interesting look at
how the women here are going about there lot waiting for men to chose them.
But, as a woman who simply is waiting to be chosen doesn’t seem half bad.
1. Have we progressed in a positive direction for women.
2. Also are men better off than they where in this book.
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