Elizabeth Bennett Pride And Prejudice Essay

Elizabeth Bennett is born the second oldest into an extraordinarily shallow family. Her one point of comfort is her elder sister, Jane, who is as quiet and reserved as she is beautiful and level-headed. The rest of her family is a disaster. Her father, while mostly reasonable, shows little concern for the workings of his family and remains reserved in the peace of his own library, apart from the rest of his family. Her mother and sisters are incredibly silly and possess only thoughts that involve ribbons, balls, gentlemen, and particularly the militia. Thus, they are practically worked up into a frenzy when a handsome, young gentleman named Mr. Bingley, possessing large sums of wealth, moves into the neighborhood with the company of his sister,

Darcy on the other hand, fails to impress anyone, despite his wealth. His cold arrogance and apparent disdain for others strike Lizzie particularly hard. She finds friendship in a handsome young officer who has equal hatred towards Darcy, Mr. Wickham. Meanwhile, Jane is invited to spend time with Caroline Bingley, and after catching a cold, is requested to stay there awhile with Lizzie as her nursemaid. This only intensifies Lizzie‟s dislike of everyone but Bingley, Bingley‟s love for Jane, Caroline‟s disdain for the Bennetts, and Darcy‟s attraction towards Lizzie‟s handsome eyes. Thus, almost everyone is glad to see them go, though the Bennetts less so when they discover Mr. Collins, who is to inherit everything from the Bennett family has come to visit the family in hopes of securing a wife. His interests first rest on Jane, but she‟s taken, so he moves on to Lizzie. He proposes to her and she rejects him quite forcefully. He then becomes engaged with Charlotte, Lizzie‟s dearest friend. The mood around the house grows even more gray when it is discovered Mr. Bingley has departed for London, dragged along by his sister and Darcy who declares Jane‟s indifference towards him. Jane also goes to London, to be with her aunt and uncle, and to try to reunite with Mr.