Jane Austen is a great story tεller, and the theme of her novels is generally considered to be concerned with the complicated courtship between young women of lower class and men from the affluent class. Readers of her novels, therefore, do not generally expect much except the unravelling of the courtship process. This kind of simplified understanding of her novels, however, is no more than a very superficial interpretation of her novels. The fact that her novels do not very much go beyond the family situations is considerably contrituting to this kind of misunderstanding about the theme of her novels. There is more to her novels than this. Even though Auten mainly describes domestic circumstances in her novels, we should not be fooled into thinking that she is mainly concerned with courtship process in her novels. What I am trying to demonstrate in this essay is that under the seemingly simple and unproblematic descriptions in her novels we could find the complicated and dynamic workings of the capital. We can see this very clearly in her Pride and Prejudice. In order to understand the role of the capital it is very important to know what Pierre Bourdieu means by habitus and cultural capital. Bourdieu defines habitus as "the system of durablε, transposable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures." What he means is that habitus is the generating principle of behavior embodied in the unconscious. The habitus, therefore, is the invisible basis of the cultural capital, which Bourdieu maintains is as important as economic capital. Cultural capital can be defined as "the possεssion of knowledge, accomplishmεnts, formal and informal qualifications by which an individual may gain entη and secure a position in particular social circles." By inheriting the habitus from her father and accumulating cultural capital all by herself, Elizabeth gains acceptance by and eventually marries Darcy. This marriage, howεver, is not simply a marriage of hearts only. What is important is that Elizabeth has raised the value of her own meager dowry by cultural capital. Her marriage, in this sense, is also the marriage of capitals: the monetary capital of Darcy and the cultural capital of Elizabeth. The marriage as merger of these two different kinds of capitals makes it economically sound and secure for both parties involved and there is plenty of indication that it will be viable on a sound basis in the future.