Portia and her Suitors

In the novel Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, we meet a beautiful, young, and wealthy woman who is trying to fine herself a husband. Her father, though dead, has set up a game so the suitor who guesses the correct cascket wins the girl. Though the game is set up so that the winner wins by pure luck, Portia is still very picky about her suitors. The way that Portia talks about her suitors tells us that she wants a man that might not be the normal suitor, one that is full of him self and one that she could talk to. We lean that she wants to have a nice and respectful husband.
PORTIA:
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'An you will
not have me, choose.' He hears merry tales and smiles not: I fear
he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so
full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be married
to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth than to either of
these. God defend me from these two!
(21-23)
This passage is an example on how Portia wants a husband that would treat her well and one that she would find interesting and one that would find her interesting. From what we have read about her so far tells us that none of these men are eligible for her hand and we have learned that the best man is yet to come.