Mr. Bennet's Job (Modern Version)

In her youth, Liz had understood her father to be an important businessman, an investor . . . and it was only with the passage of time that Liz realized that the investments he oversaw were solely those belonging to his immediate family and that, further, their oversight accounted for the entirety of his job. This realization had been so gradual that it was not until her junior year of college, when a friend of Liz's said of the wealthy older guy the friend was dating, "He pretends to work, but I think he's one of those men who push around piles of his family's money," that Liz felt an unwelcome sense of recognition. A decade earlier, when her father had "retired," Liz had wished she did not have the cruel though From what?

Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible (New York: Random House, 2016), p. 65