Close — it’s because this kind of wanting is a passive, chronic want that may or may not be acted on with the right amount of forwardness, as the novel demonstr

Close — it’s because this kind of wanting is a passive, chronic want that may or may not be acted on with the right amount of forwardness, as the novel demonstrates. You could rewrite the sentence as “a single man...wants a wife” and talk about exactly the same group (men with a fortune) so that’s not where the inaccuracy lies.