By choosing the characters surrounding the protagonist carefully to represent extreme choices related to the key conflict, you can turn a story from enjoyable but forgettable to an enjoyable story which shows how men and women live their lives, and the choices they have to make.
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Elizabeth Bennet is surrounded by different examples of marriage (probably the biggest choice she and women of the time would ever make): her father and silly mother, her sensible aunt and uncle, her practical friend Charlotte and silly Mr Collins, good-hearted Jane and Mr Bingley (and his married sister and her husband who - in the BBC drama - don't seem to have anything in common), silly Lydia and self-centered Mr Wickham. Austen doesn't really explore spinsterhood, but there are Charlotte and Miss Bingley, both of whom wish to be married.
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