Arguement: In his article, Nicholas Seymore describes that wealth is a main theme through out Jane Austen's Novel: Pride and prejudice.

Evidence: "Jane Austen's heroines all face the truth about money which early nineteenth-century women all knew: to be female, and poor, and unprotected, was - well, as the heroine's sister says in one of her unfinished works, "my father cannot provide for us, and it is very bad to grow old and be poor and laughed at". A subject much discussed is a woman's fortune, or the lack of it: she needs at least £10,000 to have a really good chance in the marriage market, while £30,000 makes her an heiress. (Annual interest was calculated, apparently, at a uniform rate, so any prospective husband could estimate his prospective fiancée's income - which would usually become his.)"

Thoughts: I agree because during Jane Austen's time, everything revolved around social status and wealthyness which is how people got to any where at all.

http://www.starcourse.org/abbey/HWinJA.html

Argument: Jane Austen writes primarily about the social issues through her stories rather than everything that is going on during her time.

Evidence: "It is true that great historical events and political concerns appear only obliquely, if at all, in the background of Austen's stories; that she deals with the spiritual condition of the human soul only insofar as it manifests itself in her characters' manners and taste in spouses; that the intellectual issues of her day appear in her novels primarily as a vehicle for revealing character and spoofing fashion."

Thoughts: Austen does write primarily about social life and status in her novels. Even though this is true, there is some mention of political affairs when writing about topics like the militia.

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/sense_and_sensibility.html