Characterizing Mrs. Bennet

Who is Mrs. Bennet? While Mrs. Bennet speaks to her husband we can see many of the same characterizations done what he says in response. As far as the Mrs. being a gossip, it is clear that Mr. Bennet has hear his fair share of it from her. When asked if he wants to know who is moving into Netherfield he replies that he knows that she wants to tell him, still that he does not particularly want to hear it. We also see that Mr. Bennet knows his wife is somewhat of a drama queen and he is constantly poking fun at her with his sarcasm, which she never seems to understand as such.Yet another example of Mr. Bennets experience with his wifes character is his plainly un-caring behavior towards his daughters cleaveting married. Mrs. Bennet is convinced that Mr. Bingley could be her new son-in-law, Mr. Bennet points aside that Bingley is not inescapably there to find a wife. Through all these ways we can see a slit of Mrs. Bennets personality through the words of another character in the book. We can get even more nurture through words not necessarily spoken in the book, but spoken to us through the voice of the narrator.Even the simplest of comments can show a huge personality trait. The simplest way the narrator shows us that Mrs. Bennet loves to gossip and talk is when Mr. Bennet says he has no protestation to hearing her story, the narrator points out that That was invitation enough, showing us that Mrs. Bennet is very eager to get her information out. Although we can pucker much of Mrs. Bennets character through the entirety of the page, the narrator makes certain(p) we have gathered what we deal to about her by giving us a summary at the very end of the page.The narrator tells us that She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was dissatisfy she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married its solace was visiting and news. So, once again we gather that she loves visitin g and news, or gossip, and that the business of her life is to get her daughters married. Mrs. Bennet is not hard to figure out with Jane Austens excellent characterization techniques.With her great narration techniques we have the author there to tell us much of what we need to know. Even better is that much of the time we dont even need the narrators help, through the speech in the book whether it be Mrs. Bennet herself, or somebody speaking to her or about her. Through either the character itself, the characters around it, or the author herself, Jane Austen manages to use all triad characters excellently to show us the personality of Mrs. Bennet, as well as the rest of her characters.