The Gardiners and Mrs Philips
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- The Gardiners and Mrs Philips
- The Gardiners are supportive and intelligent
- Provide strong contrasts with Mr and Mrs Bennet to emphasize their flaws as parents
- Provide comfort and support to Bennet girls when they need it
- Eg When Jane is upset about Bingley they invite her to stay with them and try to take her mind off it. In contrast, Mr Bennet jokes that the girls enjoy being "crossed in love" and Mrs Bennet won't stop talking about the disappointed
- Mrs Gardiner gives sensible advice eg she is sure that Darcy is in love with E, she tells her niece that "he wants nothing more then a bit of liveliness and that...his wife may teach him"
- Mr Gardiner is clever and capable, during the scandal with Lydia he goes to London to help, writes letters to keep the family informed and promises them that they can "depend on my diligence and care"
- Austen uses the Gardiners to criticize class prejudice
- The Gardiners are sensible and kind. Mr Gardiner is "gentle manlike" and well educated. Mrs Gardiner is "amiable" and "intelligent"
- However Mr G is a businessman who lives "within view of his own warehouses" in London, he is middle class - which is why some character look down on him. They live on "cheapside"
- Austen uses them to express how wrong class prejudices are. Its obvious that they are nice people but people like Miss Bingley judge them simply because of there social status
- They help D to overcome his class prjudice when he first meets them, E "glories" in all the intelligent things they say and by the end of the novel "he really loved them"
- Mrs Philips is Mrs Bennets sister
- Similar to Mrs B- very silly and "vulgar" (rude with bad manners)
- Reinforced the impression that most of E's family is embarrassing and inappropriate, after E gets engaged she does her best to "shield" Darcy from having to talk to her aunt"
- The Gardiners are supportive and intelligent
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