Chapter 8
Caroline Bingley mocks the Bennets' uncle in Cheapside — the snobbery of new money.
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From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Austen interrogates the gradations of gentry life — connections in trade, the entail, and the snobbery of Lady Catherine and Caroline Bingley — to argue for merit over birth.
Chapter 25
Introduction of the Gardiners, who possess more refinement than many "gentlefolk" — Austen's quiet rebuke to rank-based pretension.
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