The world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice speaks of Victorian women with a serious obsession with marriage and the status of those they marry.  One of the major criteria for Mrs. Bennet in marrying of her daughters is the amount of wealth acrued by a potential suitor.  Wealth is a consistent concern for all Victorian women of the time period.  In describing the Bennet family's wealth it is found that 'mr. Bennet;s property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed in default of heirs male...and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his" (Austen 25).  Here it is seen that Mr. Bennet has a large fortune, however it is impossible for the girls to inherit it by law, and their mother's fortune is simply not large enough.  It is for this reason that the women find only rich men propitious for marriage.  Males with great wealth are looked at by the females with great approbation.   One cannot say that the girls are completely superficial, for they are not indifferent to the ill qualities found in some men like mr. darcy.  However, the fact that status is of the utmost importance to the girls cannot be overlooked.  It speaks of a deeper meaning, a time in which women can only find status in the males that they marry.  Thus the Bennet girls cannot be blamed for their obsession with the wealth of the men they see as potential suitors.  This is the Victorian world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.