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.