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Read the excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

"What is his name?”

"Bingley.”

"Is he married or single?”

"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”

"How so? How can it affect them?”

"My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”

Which quotation from the excerpt shows a cultural aspect of the setting?

”What is his name?”
”Is he married or single?”
"How so? How can it affect them?"
“You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them."

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“You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”

This line reveals the cultural expectation that a woman's future and the family's social/economic standing depend on making a good marriage, showing the novel's setting and values.