Scene Analysis in Pride and Prejudice

This passage occurs shortly after Elizabeth has received a letter from mr.darcy. The reason for the writing of the letter comes from the fact that Elizabeth had accused Darcy of two main issues. The first accusation against darcy was that he was a dishonorable man because he cheated Mr.Wickham out of land. Following this accusation, Elizabeth also believed that bingley's dismissal of jane was his doing.

Both of these issues caused her anger and discontent towards mr.darcy because she had strong feelings for mr.wickham and believed such a good person did not deserve to be mistreated. And with jane, she was angered because she believed mr.bingley and jane could have been happy together and that mr.darcy had ruined any opportunity of that.

These accusations led mr.darcy to write the letter that spurred elizabeth's judgment of herself. In the letter, mr.darcy reveals that the real dispute between wickham and himself came from the fact that their wickham had attempted to marry darcy's sister and she had refused. And as for Jane and mr.bingley's issue, he believed he had done it for the best interest of mr.bingley.

Her reaction to the letter is clearly stated in the first line of the passage when it says, "She grew absolutely ashamed of herself." This reveals that she believes what mr.darcy had revealed in the letter and also that she is able to realize when she had done wrong.

By seeing her wrongs, the reader realizes she is a character with a good quality.

In the next line it reads, " Of neither darcy nor wickham could she think without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd." These feelings can be related to both characters because she felt blind to mr. Darcy's honorable intentions...

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... Elizabeth is informed that Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam had called during her absence. Mr.dacry had only stayed for a few minutes while Fitzwilliam had stayed almost an hour and even almost resolved to walk after her till she could be found. Although there was a much greater effort from Fitzwilliam, Elizabeth is unconcerned with him, and confesses, "Colonel Fitzwilliam was no longer an object: she could think only of her letter." The reason for her unconcern may be the cause of two possible reasons. The first being that she is too distraught over the disturbing truth and still attempting to deal with the realization of her character flaws or the second reason. Which is that she may can only think of her letter because she has feelings for the person who wrote it and who she know sees as honorable character.

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