Quote 1: "In all Austen's novels, but especially Pride and Prejudice, pursuing happiness is the business of life. Austen trots character after character before our attention so that we may consider what pleases, or conversely, what vexes and mortifies them, thus inviting us to assess the quality and durability of their happiness" (Johnson, 349).
Quote 2: "As soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner's hope of Lydia's being soon married, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its exuberance. She was now in an irritation as violent from delight, as she had ever been fidgety from alarm or vexation. To know that her daughter would be married was enough. She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct" (Austen, Ch. 49).
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