I can see what you mean. Instead of copying it exactly, I added comas. Instead, it should have been ,"...a single man (I put an extra comma here) in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of (I put in search of)a wife." In this instance, 'in want of ' means 'in need'. As for your example of 'Larry grew up in want', meant something he needed was missing. In other words, 'Larry grew up without (a mother, father, home, ect.) Other meanings of this word are- longing for a certain something that you don't necessarily need. One other example is to require.
As for an example of 'showing', she uses that technique in the very beginning, showing that Mr. Bennett enjoys teasing Mrs. Bennett. Another instance is when Mrs. Bennett gets angry and is sick of Mr. Bingley because Mr. Bennett did not seem to have called on him,but when he finally said he had, she gushed that she knew he would call on Mr. Bingley, and that it was a very good joke. This shows that she is very silly and pretends when she feels so for fretting about nothing.
Austen shows a sense of hypocrisy in the scene of the ball when the ladies, who had been very impressed with Mr. Darcy (undoubtedly because of his very large fortune), learned that he had a tremendous amount of pride that reversed their good opinion of him to that of disgust. This showed that the foremost important thing to look for is fortune and then character.
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