Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 50 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 50
Pride and Prejudice. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
Chapter summary
This chapter advances the novel’s social and emotional action around Chapter 50, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: Bennet had very often wished, before this period of his life, that, instead of spending his whole income, he had laid by an annual sum, for the better provision of his children, and of his wife, if she survived him. He now wished it more than ever.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 50 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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