Sir William Lucas, a neighbor of the Bennets, throws a party that Darcy attends. Darcy revises his opinion of her and admires her wit, intelligence, and “fine eyes” (36). Bingley continues to court Jane, and Darcy and Elizabeth are frequently in each other’s company. Elizabeth also hears the remark, but she is highspirited and confident, and the comment does not endear Darcy to her. Bennet by making a disparaging remark about Elizabeth, the second daughter. He refuses to dance with anybody but Bingley’s sisters and makes an enemy of Mrs. He does not have Bingley’s charm and is quickly judged “the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world” (11). With them is the noble-looking, handsome, and exceedingly wealthy Darcy. He meets them at the next Meryton Ball-Meryton being the nearest large town-and is immediately attracted to Jane, the oldest and most attractive daughter.īingley is accompanied by his sisters Caroline and Mrs. Bennet makes the visit and Bingley reciprocates, although the Bennet girls are out when he calls. Bennet is anxious to find husbands for them.
The Bennets have five daughters, and Mrs. She directs her husband to visit Bingley immediately to prepare for future relationships. Bennet hears that Netherfield, a nearby country estate, has been rented by the young, wealthy, and single Mr. You could not shock her more than she shocks me īeside her Joyce seems innocent as grass. In his “Letter to Lord Byron” (1936), he wrote of Jane Austen: Bennet’s opening words at the start of Pride and Prejudice. The 20th-century British poet, playwright, and critic, Wystan Hugh Auden (1907–1973) summed up the qualities, pithily and brilliantly encapsulated in Mrs. Her observations reflect the key concern of Pride and Prejudice: the crucial importance of money and property in influencing human activity and relationships. Her self-appointed task in life is to make sure that each of her five daughters secures a suitable that is, a financially sound, preferably very rich husband. Bennet, hardly noted in the rest of the novel for her wisdom or diplomacy. But they express precisely the sentiments of the anxious and fussy Mrs. These words at the start of the novel are those of the author, who is a subtle commentator throughout the story. At the heart of the novel lies irony-what appears to be so may indeed not be so.
So begins Jane Austen’s arguably most enduringly successful novel-one that has been translated into at least 35 languages. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.
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