Its interesting to see the dramatic change in parenting skills that Mr.Bennet displays through out the story. As well as oddly indifferent ways of Mrs.Bennet .We first see that Mr.Bennet is really distant to all his children. He is what we call a permissive parent in the beginning, by letting his daughters do whatever they want and just calling them silly for it. I think through out the book he becomes a better parent through his daughters actions, he becomes aware of them for two reasons. First is that he had to learn a big lesson that instilling morals and watching your children were important because the fact that he didn't led to him having to be financially worried because of the Lynda hunband crisis. Second is that when his daughters threw him into a social world where reputation was everything, and people saw how the girls were acting, he got a glimse or a wake up call of that that wasnt the right thing to do, in the case of not letting Kitty go with her once wild sister Lynda. He was always a good father in the way he loved his children but since he put rules down on Kitty it made her a better person.
Mrs. Bennet on the other hand is a different story. She displays the exact behavior of her steriotype husband-money wanting woman. Through the book she doesn't change at all. It's sad that the girls could change only the father's views on life, that just opening him up to what was really happening with his family opened his eyes to change but Mrs.Bennet was always stuck in the dark because she was so driven for her goal. Becuase the change of Mr.Bennet, the house should be more disiplined but it really didn't matter now because it is too late, now his daughters are pretty much raising Kitty becuase they have the money to do so. Its interesting to think that if the Bennets were rich from the start I think that the girls would have been more well kept in character, but would Elizabeth be the way that she was, or any of the girls for that matter. I think they wouldn't have as different personalitites that they had, but rather ones more like the Bingley sisters. If they were rich to begin with I dont think Mr.Darcey would be interested in Elizabeth but i still think that Jane and Mr.Bingley would because they're relationship and character aren't very strong.
They both have very different styles, almost like two different ends of the spectrum. But it is weird to think of what would happen differently if a certain things was changed in your life, or even someone else's life. Maybe life would have turned out better for all the girls if they were not so "silly" and a little more well behaved.
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