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Marriage is a sacred bond between a couple that symbolizes their love and want, to be with one another.  In the novel "Pride and Prejudice", this idea of marriage is not considered traditional as it is rare as the morals of the time are split, and favored towards the materialistic side of life.  The greatest example of that being, Mrs. Bennet. She is essentially one-minded in what she does and in a sense emotionless when it comes to anything except getting her daughters "hitched".  Mrs. Bennet sees marriage as an investment and the groom as broker who is suppose to take on the stock which is her daughters and make it grow in price in terms meaning their financial situation in their lives.  She wants a cash cow not a husband for her daughters, as she says for future stability but really for herself for the self satisfaction of knowing that she pulled it of getting into the higher class, thus displaying how careless she really is.  Yet Elizabeth is anything but the same as her mother as she is one who does not look for the glitz and glamour but the real, raw emotions of love, the real reason to get married.  Her simplicity allows her to be grounded, down to earth, and give her the ability to not care if her husband is rich or poor. What Elizabeth wants, is the man of her dreams, yet not in the comic way as in a fairy tale, as we would think in the 1800s, but in a way which a man would truly love her and she could love him for who he is and not for what he stands or what he's made of.  She wants the sacred bond to be legitimate.  This ability to be so real with herself, allows Elizabeth to be an independent woman and think for herself. Independence allows Elizabeth to grow as a human being and understand the true values of life, and what the difference between money and love really means, unlike her mother who believes that every emotion can either be bought or be caused by money because she who has not grown, because she does not have to capability to, in her life, can not understand what a real marriage really is.