Pride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel by Jane Austen. In the novel, the narrator attributes Mrs. Bennet’s lasting inability to understand her husband to the unusual combination of qualities that makes up his temperament.
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mediumWhich quotation from Pride and Prejudice most effectively illustrates the claim?
A
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
B
“[Mrs. Bennet] was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.”
C
“Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.”
D
“The business of [Mrs. Bennet’s] life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.”