Static Characters - This is about the static characters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Among Mr. Collins, Mrs. Bennet, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mrs. Bennet is the prime example of a static character. From the very beginning, learning of Mr. Bingley arriving into town, we see the wheels in Mrs. Bennet's mind start to turn. "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune, four or five thousane a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" (6). Right away she is setting them up …

…Mr. Collins and Elizabeth, Mrs. Bennet even goes so far as to say, "[I insist upon her accepting it], or I will never see her again" (96). Mr. Bennet goes on to say how she should not marry Mr. Collins, while Mrs. Bennet "talked to Elizabeth again and again, coaxed and threatened her by turns" (97). Mrs. Bennet will never give up on marrying off the girls, it's something she has always done, and always will do.