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It is a truth universally
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acknowledged that a single man in
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possession of a good fortune must
be in want of a wife.
You mistake me, my dear. I have
high respect for your nerves. They
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are my old friends. I have heard you
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mention them with consideration
these twenty years at last.
The business of her [Mrs. Bennet's]
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life was to get her daughters
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married; its solace was visiting and
news.
I do not believe Mrs. Long will do
any such thing. She has two nieces
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of her own. She is a selfish,
Mrs. Bennet
hypocritical woman, and I have no
opinion of her.
The astonishment of the ladies was
just he [Mr. Bennet] wished- that of
Mrs. Bennet perhaps surpassing the
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rest- though when the first tumult of
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joy was over, she began to declare
that it was what she had expected
all the while.
If I can but see one of my daughters
happily settled at Netherfield and
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all of the others equally married, I
Mrs. Bennet
shall have nothing to wish for.
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She could not imagine what

business he [Mr. Bingley] could
have in town so soon after his
arrival in Hertfordshire; and she
began to fear that he might be
always be flying about from one

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At this time, women served no
purpose other than getting married,
hopefully to a rich man, and
making good little wives.
Mr. Bennet has been dealing with
his wife's hysterical fits ever since
he married her.
Mrs. Bennet has no hopes or
dreams of her own. She has
probably never had an independent
thought in her life.
Mrs. Bennet is probably the
biggest hypocrite of them all
because she says she does not
judge anyone, when in fact she
does.
Mrs. Bennet acts like she always
knew that Mr. Bennet went over to
see Mr. Bingley when she actually
is always the one to overreact and
be completely oblivious to
everything that happens in her life.
Women's lives at this time
consisted of nothing but finding a
man to marry, have children with
him, then get her children married
to a man as well.
When even the slightest thing
doesn't go the way that Mrs.
Bennet wants it to, she gets
hysterical and thinks the whole
world has fallen into ruin.

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place to another, and never settled

at Netherfield as he ought to be.
With a book he [Mr. Bennet] was
regardless of time, and on the
present event of an evening which
had raised such splendid
expectations.
He is so handsome which a young
man ought likewise to be, if he
possibly can. His character is
thereby complete.
Compliments always take you
[Jane] by surprise and me never.

Mr. Bennet knew that this event

was important for his girls but he
stayed home reading alone in his
study anyway.

Elizabeth is jokingly saying that a

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man in that time does not have a
Elizabeth
good character unless he is
handsome.
Jane always receives attention and
compliments while Elizabeth is
viewed as nothing more as the
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second prettiest Bennet daughter.
Elizabeth
Yet Jane is always taken by
surprise when she is
complimented.
But I can guess how it was;
Mrs. Bennet doesn't think that
everybody says that he is ate up
Darcy has the attitude that he does
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with pride, and I dare say he had
because of something else that
Mrs. Bennet heard somehow that Mrs. Long
happened in his past. She can never
does not keep a carriage and had
really look past the surface of
come to the ball in a chaise.
someone's character.
When she is secure of him, there
Girls of that day were expected to
will be no leisure for falling in love find a man that they could "secure"
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as much as she chooses.
then fall in love with them. It was
Mrs. Bennet
considered inappropriate for two
people to fall in love unless they
were serious about it.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a Charlotte doesn't expect happiness
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matter of chance.
or love to be in a marriage because
Charlotte
all she wants is a secure income
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and home.
No, my dear you had better go on
This was the first idea that Mrs.
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horseback, because it seems likely Bennet had and it involved putting
Mrs. Bennet to rain, and then you must stay all
one of her own daughters in an
night.
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Well, my dear, if your daughter
Mr. Bennet suggests that, because

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should have a dangerous fit of

illness, if she should die, it would
be a comfort to know that it was all
in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under
your orders.
And I wish my collection were
larger for your benefit and my own
credit; but I am an idle fellow, and
though I have not many, I have
more than I ever look into.

this idea was Mrs. Bennet's is why

it failed.

Mr. Bingley is kind, but he is so

rich that he has more books than he
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will possibly read, and the reason
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he has so many books is because
he has nothing else to do in his life
but waste his time.
A woman must have a thorough
Men are just expected and
knowledge of music, singing,
preferred to have good looks and a
drawing, dancing, all the modern
fortune, but Darcy suggests that the
languages, to deserve the word; and ideal woman is required to have all
besides all this, she must possess a of these manners and
certain something in her air and
characteristics IN ADDITION TO
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manner of walking, the tone of her all of this knowledge about other
Darcy
voice, her address and expressions, subjects.
or the word will be but half
deserved. All this she must possess,
and to all this she must yet add
something more substantial, in the
improvement of her mind by
extensive reading.
Eliza Bennet is one of those young Elizabeth Bennet doesn't really
ladies who seek to recommend
undermine other women unless
themselves to the other sex by
they insult her or are rude to her
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undervaluing their own; and with
while Miss Bingley is trying to
Miss Bingley
many men, I dare say, it succeeds. convince Dacry that Elizabeth is
But, in my opinion it is a paltry
nothing.
device, a very mean art.
I often tell my other girls they are
One of Mrs. Bennet's favorite
nothing to her.
daughters is Jane because she is
beautiful and is probably
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everything that she wanted to be at
Mrs. Bennet
that age. In order to make her other
daughters try to strive to be Jane,
Mrs. Bennet puts down all of her
other daughters.

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I do not like to boast of my own

child, but to be sure, Jane- one does
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not often see anybody better
Mrs. Bennet looking. It is what everybody says.

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Mrs. Bennet does what Miss

Bingley accuses Elizabeth of
doing, undermines everyone who is
the same age as her daughters in
order for them to look better.

She hardly knew how to suppose

that she could be an object of
admiration to so great a man; and
yet that he should look at her
because he disliked her was still
more strange.

Elizabeth had told Jane earlier that

she was used to getting many
compliments, yet she feels very
strange being the center of Darcy's
attention.

She often tried to provoke Darcy

into disliking her guest by talking of
their supposed my marriage, and
planning his happiness in such an
alliance.
He was directly invited to join their
party, but he declined it, observing
that he could imagine but two
motives for their choosing to walk
up and down the room together,
with either of which motives his
joining them would interfere.
My good opinion once lost is lost
for ever.

Miss Bingley probably likes Darcy,

thus trying to turn him away from
any other woman he might
possibly be attracted to.
Darcy sees through Miss Bingley's
plan to compare herself to
Elizabeth so he could see what
Bingley has that Miss Bennet
doesn't.

Darcy has very high standards and

claims that his mind can never be
changed.
He began to feel the danger of
Darcy doesn't want Elizabeth to
paying Elizabeth too much
see his true feelings for her
attention.
because he has a reputation to keep
up.
Mrs. Bennet wondered at their
It was Mrs. Bennet's idea in the
coming, and thought them very
first place to send Jane out to Mr.
wrong to give so much trouble, and Bingley's prop[erty hoping that she
was sure Jane would have caught
would have to stay the night over
cold again.
there. Back then, if an unmarried
young person stayed at the
property of an unmarried young

person of the other gender, it was

almost guaranteed to have them be
engaged. However, now Mrs.
Bennet is worried that Mr. Bingley
won't propose.

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In a softened tone she declared

herself not at all the offended; but
he continued to apologize for about
a quarter of an hour.
I have often observed how little
young ladies are interested by
books of a serious stamp, the
written solely for their benefit.

Mrs. Bennet is acting very

different from her usual personality
because she found that Mr. Collins
is stranger than herself.
Mr. Collins believes that women
aren't as grateful as they should be
for the books that are available to
them even though, in reality,
reading books and walking around
the property were the only two
things that they could really do.
Mrs. Bennet treasured up the hint, Unlike Mr. Darcy's mind, Mrs.
and trusted that she might soon
Bennet's mind changes very easily
have two daughters married; and
and frequently to conform to the
the man whom she could not bear to popular opinion.
speak of the day before was now
high in her good graces.
Elizabeth honored him for such
Once Mr. Wickham told his side of
feelings, and thought him
the story and revealed his
handsomer than ever as he
emotions, Elizabeth instantly
expressed them.
became much more attracted to
him.
The idea soon reached to
Mr. Collins is trying his best to
conviction, as she observed his
appeal to Elizabeth, and although
increasing civilities toward herself she is flattered at his attempt, she
and heard his frequent attempt at a still has no desire to let herself get
compliment on her wit and vivacity; together with him. Mr. Collins is
and though more astonished than
trying a little too hard. Even
gratified herself by this effect of her though she does not approve, her
charms, it was not long before her mother keeps trying to nudge her
mother gave her to understand that in his direction.
the probability of their marriage
was exceedingly agreeable to her.

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The moment of her release from

him was ecstasy.
Many smiled; but no one looked
more amused than Mr. Bennet
himself, while his wife seriously
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spoken so sensibly, and observed in
a half-whisper to Lady Lucas that
he was a remarkably clever, good
kind of young man.
...though I am far from accusing
you of cruelty at present, because I
know it to be the established custom
of your sex to reject a man on the
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Mr. Collins
have even now said as much to
encourage my suit as would be
consistent with the true delicacy of
the female character.
People who suffer as I do from
nervous complaints can have no
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Mrs. Bennet Nobody can tell what I suffer! -But
it is always so. Those who do not
complain are never pitied.
My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a
conceited, pompous, narrow24
minded, silly man; you know he is,
Elizabeth
as well as I do, that the woman who
marries him cannot have a proper
way of thinking.
Elizabeth loved absurdities, but she
had known Sir Williams too long.
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wonders of this presentation and
knighthood; and his civilities were
worn out like his information.
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friend over the house, extremely
well pleased, probably, to have the

Elizabeth is so disgruntled with

Mr. Collins trying to win her over.
Mrs. Bennet had been so against
Mr. Collins coming over in the first
place but now she thinks he is
well-spoken and clever just
because he is a possible husband
for Elizabeth.
Mr. Collins refuses to take
Eloizabteh's reply seriously and is
trying to talk her out of it by
convincing her that it's just a thing
that women do that she can't help.

Mrs. Bennet is saying that people

like her don't talk a lot so she has
to talk so much to let people
around her know what she is
"suffering" from.
Almost everyone who has met Mr.
Collins, besides himself and Mrs.
Bennet, thinks of him as a strange
person who they don't want to be
associated with.
She has been around Sir Williams
so many times that she knows
many of his stories and is bored of
what he has to say.
Charlotte is only proud of her
house and the things that she has
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opportunity of showing it without

her husband's help.
Do not make yourself uneasy, my
dear cousin, about your apparel.
Lady Catherine is far from
requiring that elegance of dress in
us which becomes herself and
daughter. I would advise you
merely to put on whatever of your
clothes is superior to the rest, there
is no occasion for anything more.
Lady Catherine will not think the
worse of you for being simply
dressed. She likes to have the
distinction of rank preserved.

who she has to share it with.

She was not rendered formidable by

silence; but whatever she said was
spoken in so authoritative a tone as
marked her self-importance, and
brought Mr. Wickham immediately
to Elizabeth's mind; and from the
observation of the day altogether,
she believed Lady Catherine to be
exactly what he had represented.

Lady Catherine views herself as

extremely important and acts as if
everything she says is a gift to
anyone who hears it.

Mr. Collins thinks he is putting

Elizabeth's mind at ease when he is
actually insulting her, as with most
of the time he tries to compliment
her. Lady Catherine like to be the
one in charge.

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