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Since Longbourn is home to the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, there is a lot of time spent there. Longbourn is the backdrop not just to Lizzy and her sisters, but to their hopes, worries, and disappointments; the place also sees a good deal of goodbyes as well as proposals. Yet Longbourn is important to the plot of Pride and Prejudice as well, since the Bennet girls' home will go not to them, but to Mr. Collins after the death of Mr. Bennet. This fact is what leads Mr. Collins to visit the Bennets and is why he feels he must marry one of the Bennet daughters. For then they will be taken care of even after their father's death. Even in his proposal to Elizabeth, Mr. Collins explains that he felt it necessary to marry one of the Bennet daughters. He says, ''But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honored father I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughters.'' Elizabeth very quickly shoots down Mr. Collins' proposal. She refuses to marry someone without love