In the novel, "Pride and Prejudice," by Jane Austen (1813), protagonist Elizabeth Bennet discovers that she does not follow firmly to the standards set forth by society. Told in third person point-of-view, the author supports her theme by describing the setting of the 19th century in England, establishing the major conflict of financial stability instead of marrying for love. Throughout the novel Elizabeth endures the pressure of getting married to a rich man to follow the norm in her society, however, her sister Mary Bennet also goes against the norm who doesn't compare to her sisters and what is expecting in a young girl. From the beginning of the novel, Mary is perceived rather boring in comparison to her sisters because she does not enjoy life in the same way as they do. "Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire and some new observations of the threadbare morality to listen to" (51). Mary is anti-social, unappealing, less clever and thoughtful although she is more educated than the others. Mary is often an outsider and turns to her books as comfort from her loneliness from not having a close relationship to her sisters or parents. With no consideration focused on her, she begins to strive for attention in the form where she speaks about her books and she doesn't understand the meaning of the words when speaking about them to her family. "Pride is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed that a human nature is particularly prone to it imaginary" (15). Mary's struggles with her speech skills when she seeks out for an exchange of words with her family at the dinner table that is rare to see a mutual discussion compared to how social her sister Elizabeth is towards her other sisters and parents. Elizabeth Bennet, sister of Mary, is asked for her hand in marriage by Mr. Darcy who at first didn't notice