"It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in a possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," (1) as the narrator states. Now we must ask ourselves this, is a single woman required to marry a man in possession of a good fortune, or is there more to it than that? In the story, "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, five Bennet sisters experience the importance of having pride, and the prejudice that comes along with it. In order to have pride a person must have a sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect. …
