“Had Elizabeth’s opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic comfo

Through this quote, Austen shows just how much of an outsider Elizabeth is in her own family. While her sisters are weak, docile women looking for men to provide for them, Elizabeth is strong-willed enough to look search for happiness and love – even after growing up in a home where that is clearly not seen as the point of marriage.