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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Depending on where you are in the book, this statement is untrue. (Unless you're going to argue that Jane doesn't give a flip either way.)
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I have not the pleasure of understanding you. Can you point me to the place in the novel where either Jane or Elizabeth are trying to get Bingley and Darcy, respectively, to marry them?
I don't think it's a matter of interpretation. I don't think such a scene exists. They might wish for it, or be sad because they don't think it will happen (and both of them think that right up till the time the gentlemen actually propose), but they do nothing active to make it happen. They both know it would be pretty vulgar to do so.