Business of Love

Women are never meant to do as they please. In the XIX century, women were seen as a main component of the business of love. It was all based on a family arrangement to increase wealth. 

It didn't matter if the gentleman looked like a frog as a long as he had an admirable fortune. As seen in the ball scene, "Elizabeth felt completely taken in. She had fully proposed being engaged by Wickham for those very dances: and to have Mr. Collins instead!

Elizabeth had to hide her feelings and leave them to Economy. Attraction meant nothing in this age, and les when it combined a feeling of affection. It was a matter of marriage with whoever is suitable or being single forever, proving to society how worthless you are. 

A determinate women as Elizabeth could not choose her own fate, perhaps that is the reason why her love with Mr. Darcy results a bit more intense, revealing compromise and passion. It totally breaks the conventional mind of the epoch and emphasizes the impotence of women in that time. 

Elizabeth longed  a man that would actually understand her, someone to talk to even if it was only about Mr. Darcy.  She didn't want a man that actually cared more about her patroness, Laidy Catherine de Bourgh, who helped Mr. Collins be "removed far beyond the necessity of regarding little matters" (Pg. 63). 

Elizabeth dreams for a right guy, she wants love or at least someone interesting and worth having by her side.