Was Caroline Bingley in favor of Mr. Charles Bingley in getting married to Jane?

Answer 1

Caroline Bingley did not want her brother Charles Bingley to marry Jane Bennet. There were at least two reasons for this.

First, the Bingley sisters wanted to elevate their family, which had made its money in trade, to what they regarded as a higher social status, landed gentry. A marriage between Bingley and Jane Bennet would have been to landed gentry, but of a low sort that was intermarried with merchants and attorneys, just the sorts of people they wanted to avoid.

Second, she rightly guessed that Darcy was strongly attracted to Elizabeth Bennet, and wanted to keep them separated. A marriage between Bingley and Jane would have tended to put them together more often because Darcy was Bingley's closest friend and Elizabeth was Jane's sister. Caroline Bingley wanted Darcy for herself.