Love Has Nothing To Do With It. Speaks of "Pride and Predjuice" by Jane Austen

        In Pride and Predjuice life is not all fun and games. There are many pressures in life: mothers with high expectations for a good marriage and a girl's own expectation of what life and hopefully marriage will be like. Charlotte Lucas is the oldest daughter in a large family, she is not the most beautiful girl, and she is twenty-seven, well beyond the marrying age. Charlotte is Elizabeth Bennett's best friend and Mr. Collins, the …

…was, "Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, have not yet lost their charms" (p.183).         Charlotte neither being pretty nor wealthy has compensated for her husband's annoying traits in many ways. In a time when most girl's goals were to get married, Charlotte achieved her goals. Even though she may not love, not even like her husband, she is happy because she will not be a spinster.