Shut the Hell Up…You Old Women

Lady de Bourgh despite being called a LADY isn't really one. When Elizabeth gets to Charlottes house Mr. Collins takes Elizabeth to meet his patroness. During the meeting Lady de Bourgh spends the whole evening just "spitting" at Elizabeth faces, basically stating that her family is just a piece of crap. How all her sisters are poorly taught and how not even one excels in an art. She also takes the time to tell Elizabeth to stay out of her family's business knowing some facts about Darcy and her.

To my surprise Elizabeth doesn't bend her head and look at the ground, she looks her straight at the eye and stands up for what she beliefs and protects her family even though she knows it is not the most cultures one.

The view I had about Elizabeth changed completely in this part of the novel I loved how she can't really find her path in love, but stands up for her beliefs something a women 200 years ago would commonly not do.

I know belief that Elizabeth is a strong person that evokes confidence but at the same time an odd feeling making her such an important character in the novel.

Where Is All The Pride?

After Bingley´s escape the Bennet family especially Mrs. Bennet tries to re unite the love between Bingley and Jane sending Bingley letters over to London. Unfortunately the letter they receive in response is just stating that Bingley will stay at London further more giving an end to the relationship.

One thing that caught my attention was how letters are so important in the novel and in the historical context. As I read the novel I realized how the families exchanged information letting each other what they felt or simply talking about a hard day. Even though the most shocking things of the letters were how I compared them to today's "letters" and how the world has become such a virtual place.

Something that came to my surprise was how Charlotte a long ago friend of Elizabeth accepts to marry Mr. Collins. In my opinion I don't feel it was wrong for her to do that as long as she loved him. However I would have imagined that Elizabeth felt a weird feeling inside of her, knowing that she had the chance to marry him.

With Charlotte and Mr. Collins gone Mr. Bennet´s brother, Mr. Gardiner comes to visit and decides to take Jane to London to ease the pain she had after Bingley leaving town. I feel that it was a bad move coming from Mr. Gardiner knowing that Bingley lived in London, therefore giving Jane false hopes about trying to regain Bingley´s love.

After Jane leaves Netherfield with his uncle Elizabeth starts to questions Wickham´s love and thinks about the different opinions her family has giving her. After a while she receives a few letters from Jane saying that Miss. Bingley thinks she is an obstacle to Bingley marring Georgiana Darcy.

However the reader learns that Wickham is in love with another girl that has just gained a large fortune….hmmm this sounds fishy. Elizabeth in dismay just states that she has been hurt "but slightly… and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice"

I really hate this Wickham guy he is actually a gold digger that doesn't care about hurting women's feelings, it is people like this that make the novel interesting and give the reader a space to reflect on themselves and the novels, giving a huge space for criticism…I kind of relate it to the feeling you get while watching a Mexican "telenovela".

During the next couple of months Elizabeth decides to travel to Charlotte´s new home and decides to stop in London for a night to visit Jane and his uncles. They have a conversation about Wickham being a "rat" but curiously Elizabeth defends him clearly stating that she is mentally unwell (why would you defend someone that broke your heart?). The next day she decides to resume her journey over to Charlottes, and is invited by the Gardiners to take part in a tour out in the lakes which Elizabeth accepts.

Which Side Are You In??

While the novels starts taking "sides" the reader can notice that Elizabeth is a very complicated women, at first falling for Darcy and then for Wickham. However Wickham does not attend Bingley´s balls causing a great sense of dismay to Elizabeth. Even though, Elizabeth, decides to flow with the balls spirits and finds herself dancing with Mr. Collins and lastly with Darcy, which for her is a huge mistake. I belief that Elizabeth is just a girl that hasn't really found her place in her family and simply sailing in a dark ocean not knowing where to go. It is actually very funny how she finds herself in these awkward moments, making the reader notice that she has no self-control. Elizabeth then finds out that Wickham did not attend the balls due to a fight that Darcy and Wickham have, making Elizabeth even madder at Darcy, however she doesn't really know at the time why they hate each other so much and decides to just take Wickham´s side.

An interesting event during the novel is how Mr. Collins is actually never taken seriously and is always left to be talked alone. During the ball he realizes his patroness; Lady Catherine is related to Darcy, anxious to talk to him about it Darcy simply leaves him "hanging". I also felt kind of bad when he proposes to Elizabeth but she turns him down at first very politely but Mr. Collins keeps on pushing for it making Elizabeth so nervous that she states it really loud and clear that she doesn't want to be her wife.

After the ball the reader can infer how awkward the Bennet family really is. I can perfectly picture it, a very traditional English home, wooden floors, a fireplace, and a crude animal scent that perforates the buildings walls, then Mary playing and awful piano tune, Mr. Collins giving another boring speech, and the loud Mrs. Bennet talking about how great an alliance between Bingley and Jane: a chaos.

With Elizabeth refusal to Mr. Collins proposal she runs away from home to try to cool off, but Mrs. Bennet as it would be expected of her follows her to tell her that a marriage between them would save the Bennet house. Dismayed by her mother's accusation she turns her down and Mrs. Bennet threatens her to never speak to her again but her dad decides to help her daughter at this one, also giving her spouse a hard time.

We also learn that Bingley has decided to run away from Netherfield giving an end to Jane's engagement. Furious Elizabeth tries to make her sister feels better by telling her it was just a plan of Mrs. Bingley to try to separate the marriage.