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[Beauty and the Beast] Why didnt Belle marry Gaston to save her father?

In the movie Belle was willing to take her dad's place as the Beast prisoner and promised to stay there forever if it meant releasing her father but when Gaston tried to have Maurice thrown in the Asylum and promise to release him if she married him she said never. I dont get how come she was willing to be the beast's prisoner forever but not Gaston's wife if it meant saving her father? How is being Gaston's wife worst than being the prisoner of a monstrous creature? As far as Belle knew at the moment he probably would have kept her behind bars in the prison cell her whole life. How is that worst than being Gaston's wife?
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Character development.

In the first case, she basically only had her father as an emotional connection, and vice verse. Both her and her father were alone and shunned by the rest of the town. In the second, though, she had more allies, more friends and, perhaps most importantly, a message calling her something other then the weird daughter of the freak.

She'd grown to respect herself more, and had more to live for, and wasn't going to throw herself at the mercy of monsters anymore.