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.