These primary sources have given me a little brackground not only into the mind and character of Austen but of the different ways of thinking that lead to the creation of her story. For example at the end of the first primary source we see a divide between widows and old maids. It says “the man who marries  widow has great cause to apprehend unreasonable expectations, unpleasant comparisons, and variable affection; while he, who marries an old maid, may with confidence prepare to meet unexacting tenderness, increasing gratitude, and perpetual endearments” (Hayley 197). This gives us not only a summarization of the source but also a look at a diferent thought of a widow. In the story we see Mrs. Smith as someone we should pitty but this description leads us to believe that all widows are just manipulative and hungry for power and wealth. This varying thought helps with my theme that classism does indeed turn people into something different, something maniacle and scheming. The next primary source helped me with Jane’s certain style. It said “Her reading was very exstensive in history and belles lettres” (Austen 206). Belles lettres being the movement where writing became more of an art form than of simple intruction for the public. This explained why her story was so slow to read through and why the reasoning behind it did not appear so clearly at first. It was because you cannot rush art, you must embrace every word and see the true meaning behind her words. In the last primary source there is a line that states “a novel, which makes good its pretentions of giving a perfectly correct picture of common life, becomes a far more Instructive work than one of equal or superir merit of the other class; it guides the judgement and supplies a kinf of artificial experience” (Whateley 209). I think this statement of her work perfectly describes what Jane wanted to express in this story. It not only immersed us in the times but made us feel like we lived it. It gives the reader a good idea of the life of the upper class while also guiding us into the rights and wrongs of the class system during that time. It does indeed instruct us as if it is trying to make us “cultured”. And through this novel we see a glimpse into the life she lived.