character+study

You are responsible for the character assigned. Some entries will be longer than others because of the importance of the character in the novel. What is important is that your study must be complete. This is a work in progress, so once your character is introduced (and most of them have been), you should begin and then add or delete as the novel progresses. Your character study must include the following: physical characteristics, character traits, what other characters think of your character. You must include the words and actions of your character and others as support for your analysis of him/her. The final part of the analysis should be a few (or several if a major character) quotes of the character that you feel are important to developing the plot or pithy comments that epitomize him/her. (Obviously include an explanation for each one.)

Elizabeth Bennet (Yael) -dynamic character -Elizabeth=Lizzie=Eliza __Descriptions__ -20 years old -"...she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous." (14) - her figure is "light and pleasing" -admired for her eyes -considers herself to be a good judge of character -"[her face] was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes"(24) -considers herself to be a good judge of character -To a certain extent, she doesn't care what people around her think of her -"That she should have walked three miles so early in the day, in such dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible to Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley;" (33) -She is only embarrased by her family's bad manners -intelligent (prefers reading to cards) -she is generally a good judge of character- Wickham and Darcy are the exceptions -"There is a stubborness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me" (170) -Lizzy describing herself -very accurate description-displayed in Lizzy's response to Lady Catherine's visit to Longbourn

__Opinion of Darcy__ - Initial opinion of Darcy: "I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine." (21) -Elizabeth is showing her own pride and her prejudice against Darcy  -accurate observation of Darcy vs Wickham: "one has got all the goodness and the other all the appearance of it"(217) -

__Darcy's opinion of her__ -initial opinion: "she is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt //me;" (13)// -then he begins to see her beauty-particularly her eyes- and her intelligence -falls in love with her at Rosings-proposes -admires her walk to Netherfeild while Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst look down on it -"**I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.**" __Other opinions of her__ -Caroline Bingley's: "Eliza Bennet is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex, by undervaluing their own...it is a paltry device, a very mean art."(40) -Mrs. Hurst "She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She looked almost wild." (35-36) -Lady Catherine- does not dislike Elizabeth at first, but hates her when she hears rumors about Elizabeth and Darcy -Mr. Bennet's favorite daughter -Mrs. Bennet's least favorite daughter-particularly because of her refusal of Mr. Collins' proposal

__Her Important Quotes__ -"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observd in them for ever" (43) -"Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart" (106)--feminist statement - "My fingers do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression.But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault--because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe //my// fingers as capable as any othe woman's of superior excecution" (171). -"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first" (92).

Mr. (Fitzwilliam) Darcy (Kaley) Quotes: “I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow” (27). Mr. Darcy is finding that he had become fond of Miss Elizabeth Bennet though it is against what he deems to be his better judgement.  “I have been used to consider poetry as the //<span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">food //<span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> of love” (44). <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(103, 9, 174); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">He highly values reading. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> “Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast” (47). <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(71, 16, 126); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">He is implying that Elizabeth may have been perhaps boasting of the fact that she was not a good reader and gives his opinion on the matter. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> “The wisest and the best of men, nay the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke” (56). <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> “Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride-- where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation” (56). <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(98, 22, 177); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">As we all know, Darcy seems to be of a proud nature. In this quote he is defending his pride in saying it is not a weakness, for he knows how to control it and not let it get out of hand. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"My good opinion once lost is lost for ever" (57). <span style="color: rgb(178, 10, 10);">EXTREMELY IMPORTANT LINE. <span style="color: rgb(112, 12, 207);"> This foreshadows Elizabeth's rejection of his proposal and how it will be extremely difficult for her to win back his trust. This also is made in reference to Mr. Wickham and how he thoroughly betrayed Darcy's faith in him. <span style="color: rgb(12, 27, 161);">"I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know, that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own" (170). <span style="color: rgb(112, 12, 207);"> <span style="color: rgb(111, 14, 200);">(speaking to Elizabeth) <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(12, 21, 166); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(12, 21, 166); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> I <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done" (171). <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(122, 15, 204); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">He is very shy in nature and has difficulties feeling comfortable around those he is not acquainted with. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 10, 185); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(12, 20, 151); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"In vain have I struggled. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 10, 185); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you" (185). <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(87, 7, 171); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Darcy proposes to Elizabeth though he believes it is against his better judgement.

Description: "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mein. . . " (12). <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">“. . . discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased: and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend” (12). “Darcy was clever. He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting. . . Darcy was continually giving offence” (18). <span style="font-size: 70%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"...she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice his own happiness to the caprice of their inclinations. Had his own happiness, however, been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it in what ever manner he thought best..." (131). <span style="color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma;">"... but by everybody else Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men" (136). <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Mr. Darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt's ill breeding, and made no answer" (169). "He seldom appeared really animated. . . Colonel Fitzwilliam's occasionally laughing at his stupidity, proved that he was generally different, which her own knowledge of him could not have told her; and as she would have liked to believe this change the effect of love, and the object of that love, her friend Eliza. . . It was an earnest, stedfast gaze, but she often doubted whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind" (176). <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister" (182). <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">". . .that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance, an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways, seen any thing that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits. That among his own connections he was esteemed and valued - that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling" (201). "There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it" (217).<span style="color: rgb(73, 18, 186);"> Lizzy is describing both Darcy and Wickham... Darcy is the former and Wickham the latter. <span style="color: rgb(9, 12, 159); font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="color: rgb(73, 18, 186);">People have many different opinions of Darcy; but as the novel progresses, we are learning that many of these opinions are based on misconceptions of his character and that he is a much better person than portrayed at the beginning of the novel. <span style="color: rgb(105, 11, 173); font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: rgb(15, 9, 165);"> <span style="color: rgb(73, 18, 186);">"I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old" (238). Mrs. Reynolds, the housekeeper of Pemberley, praises Mr. Darcy's character.<span style="color: rgb(12, 8, 161);"><span style="color: rgb(105, 11, 173);">" <span style="color: rgb(11, 12, 153);">He is the best landlord, and the best master that ever lived. Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never saw any thing of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men" (239) <span style="color: rgb(105, 11, 173);">. Mrs. Reynolds continues her description of Darcy. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(105, 11, 173); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(2, 7, 167);">"When she saw him thus seeking the acquaintance, and courting the good opinion of people . . . so desirous to please, so free from self-consequence, or unbending reserve . . ." (251) Elizabeth is describing the difference seen in Darcy's character while she is visiting Pemberley. <span style="color: rgb(105, 11, 173); font-family: Tahoma;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(105, 11, 173); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"I fancy, Lizzy, that obstinacy is the real defect of his character after all. He has been accused of many faults at different times; but //this// is the true one." Mrs. Gardiner is describing Darcy in her letter to Elizabeth"His behaviour to us has, in every respect, been as pleasing as when we were in Derbyshire. His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and //that,// if he marry //prudently,// his wife may teach him" (307-308) continuation of Mrs. Gardiner's letter"Her heart did whisper, that he had done it for her" (308) Elizabeth realized that Mr. Darcy had helped in the marriage of Lydia and Wickham for her. <span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(122, 8, 221); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jane Bennet (Smiti) <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"She is almost three and twenty!" 213 <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(136, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">She is described as the prettiest girl of the entire book. **<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);"> "I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane." - Mrs. Bennet (6) " //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">You //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room," - Mr. Darcy (13) "Oh! she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!" - Mr. Bingley (13) <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room." - Lizzy (16) <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);"> "and //which// he thought the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last question - Oh! the eldest Miss Bennet beyond a doubt, there cannot be two opinions on that point." (20) Mrs. Lucas relating what Mr. Robinson had said <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(136, 0, 255); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">"<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with. (132) "It has not been more than an error of fancy on my side, and that it has done no harm to anyone but myself." (132) (Regarding Mr. Bingley leaving) "My dear Jane! you are too good. Your sweetness and disinterestedness are really angelic" (132) "//You// wish to think all the world respectable, and are hurt if I speak ill of any body. //I// only want to think //you// perfect." (132) - Lizzy "Whose steady sense and sweetness of temper exactly adapted her for attending to them in ever way - teaching them, playing with them, and loving them" (231) <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">She is oblivious to her beauty. **<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);"> "I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time. I did not expect such a compliment." - Jane (16) "Compliments always take //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">you //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">by surprise, and //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">me //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">never. What could be more natural than his asking you again?" - Lizzy (16) She thinks Miss Bingley a charming young woman. "I am much mistaken if we shall not find a very charming neighbor in her." (17)  <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">"Oh! you are a great deal too apt you know, to like people in general. you never see a fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." - Lizzy (16) "With //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">your //<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of every body's character and make it still better, and say nothing of <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">the bad - belongs to you alone." - Lizzy (17) <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">  <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">  <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(136, 0, 255); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> "<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">Caroline is incapable of wilfully deceiving any one" (117) She hides her true feelings for Bingley from everyone and lies to them about it. "He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before." (132)
 * She has an extremely sweet disposition.**
 * <span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">She doesn't acknowledge the faults of others. **<span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">

"and nothing therefore remained to be done, but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake, whatever could not be otherwise explained. 'They have both been,' said she, 'been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other. It is, in short ,impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alientated them, without actual blame on either side." (84) - Jane talking about the conflict between Wickham and Darcy.
 * She always remains neutral.**

<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(136, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">"and to //her// it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love;" (22) "Elizabeth instantly read her feelings" (93) "Though her opinion of him must be materially affected by the difference, her sister's situation remained the same, her peace equally wounded." (132) "Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude" (132) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(221, 113, 8);">She conceals much. ** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">When she gets sick, she longs for a visit from Elizabeth but does not want to cause her to panic so she doesn't express how much she wants her to come. "Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience, from expressing in her not how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance." (33) "but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner, which would guard her suspicions of the impertinent." (22) "Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it. Jane recollected herself soon, and putting the letter away, tried to join with her the usual cheerfulness in the general conversation" (114) "As for Jane, //her// anxiety under this suspence was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth's; but whatever seh felt she was desirous of concealing." (127) "A day or two passed before Jane had courage to speak of her feelings to Elizabeth" (132) Charles Bingley (Tom) //**<span style="font-size: 75%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Charles Bingley is a static character "I did not know before," continued Bingley immediately," that you were a studier of character. it must be an amazing study." (151) "In nursing your sister I am sure you have pleausre," said Bingley;"and I hope it will be soon increased by seeing her quite well." (37)Description: "Mr. Bingley was good looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners." (12)What others think: "They attacked him in various ways; with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all; and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hadn intelligence of their neighbour Lady Lucas. Her report was highly favourable. Sir William had been delighted with him." **//
 * Only her sister, Elizabeth, really knows her**.

Mr. Wickham (Andrew) Mr. Wickham is a millitary officer. He is very attractive, and catches the eye of all of the women. However, he is simply looking for a rich woman to marry because he squandered what wealth was given to him. He is not above lying in order to divert the attentions of Elizabeth away from Darcy. He tries to court many rich women,most notably Ms. King, and ends up running off with Lydia. Elizabeth is initially attracted to him, but others warm her that it is not a good idea, and when she learns the truth from Darcy, she is disgusted with him. "He had all the best part of beauty, a fine countenance, a good figure, and very pleasing address" (62) " Mr. Wickham was far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk.....Mr. Wickham was the happy man twords whom almost every female eye was turned" (65) Wickham speaking to Elizabeth, and then lying about what he said Darcy did to him. "You could not have met with a person more capable of giving you certian information on that [Mr. Darcy] (66) "The late Mr. Darcy bequeathed me the next presentation of the best living in his gift...it was given elsewhere"(68) Mrs. Gardner warning Elizabeth about Wickham "Do not involve yourself, or endavor to involve him in an affection which the want of fortune would make so very imprident" (124) "What sort of girl is Ms. King? I would be sorry to think our friend is mercenary...he paid her not the smallest attention, till her grandfather's death made her mistress of this fortune" (132) Elizabeth, in a letter from Darcy, eventualy learns the truth and Darcy hopes that she believes that Wickham was lying "you will, I hope, acquit me henceforth of cruelty twords Mr. Wickham" (174) Wickham ultimatly runs off with Lydia. He uses his position to make sure that he recieves money yearly. Being married to a scoundrel was not as embarrassing as running off with a man and not getting married. "All that is required of you is to assure your daughter, by settelment, her equal share of the five thousand pounds"(257) Wickham also demanded a large sum just to marry Lydia, and Mr. Bennet was very concerned about it. "Yes, they must marry...how much money your uncle has laid down to bring it about" (259)

Mrs. Bennet (Maddie)

Mrs. Bennet is a static character. Jane Austen portrays her as an uneducated, foolish woman. She is loud, rude, and does not care about how others see her. She gives herself the credit for every good thing that happens to her and is focused on finding husbands for all of her daughters. She is always in everyone else's buisness and gets herself stressed about stupid little things. Jane Austen has created Mrs. Bennet to be an exaggeration of ill breeded woman of this time period who have no education and do not think before they act.

"Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place..." (5) "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A Single man of large fortune' four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" (6) //**Mrs. Bennet's life is completely focused on the marriage of her five daughters.**//

"Her mind was less difficult to develope. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she wad discontened she fancied herself nervous. The buisness of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news." (7) "Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply; but unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. "Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for heaven's sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces. " (8) //**Jane Austen uses sarcasm to describe Mrs. Bennet as a dumb woman who got herself worked up by the stupidest things**//.

"No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain' and then you must stay all night." (31) "Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with may cheerful prognostics of a bad day." (31) "This was a lucky idea of mine indeed!" said Mrs. Bennet, more than once as if the credit of making it rain were all her own." //**Mrs. Bennet is portrayed by the author as a stupid woman who will do anything to get men's attention for her daughter's sakes.**//

"Well, my comfort is, I am sure jane will die of a broken heart' and then he will be sorry for what he has done.//"// "My dear, dear Lydia! This is delightful indeed! She will be married! I shall see her again! She will be married at sixteen!" //**Mrs. Bennet's stupidity is shown throughout the book. She has no worry about her family's reputation and is only happy that her daughter is married.**// <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(255, 0, 33); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mr. Bennet (Jonathan) <span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Mr. Bennet is not the stereotypical father of this society by any means. He does not concern himself with the marriage of his five daughters, and he sometimes seems to not even care about them at all. He does not behave the way typical fathers of this time period behaved. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Personality **<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: “Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.” **Mr. Bennet has an odd personality that not even his wife can understand.**
 * <span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">His marriage **<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: “Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion on my poor nerves.” **Miss Bennet. The marriage is not based on love therfore, these problems arise. The Bennet marriage portarays what happens when you marry for the money and not out of love.**
 * <span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">His Family: **<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> “And her might imagine, from my father’s behavior, from his indolence and the little attention he has ever seemed to give to what was going forward in his family, that //he// would do as little, and think as little about it, as any father could do, in such a matter” **Elizabeth. He cares about his family so little, and his daughters recognize it.**

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lydia Bennet (Rachel)-Lydia is a static character. Through the whole book, she is portrayed as very flirtatious and carefree. She seems to be confused as to how she should behave in society according to Austen. "Lydia flew about the house in restless ecstasy, calling for everyones congratulations, and laughing and talking with more violence than ever..." (222)-after being invited to Brighton by Mrs. Forrester "She was gone off to to Scotland with...Wickham!"(260) -letter from Jane to Lizzy explaining that Lydia had eloped with Wickham and they did not know where she was "...a sister's sense of decency and virtue in such a point should admit of doubt. But, really, I know not what to say. Perhaps I am not doing her justice. But she is very young; she has never been taught to think on serious subjects; and for the last half-year, nay, for a twelvemonth-- she has been given up to nothing but amusement and vanity. She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way. Since the shire were first quartered in Meryton, nothing but love, flirtation, and officers have been in her head. She has been doing everything in her power by thinking and talking on the subject, to give greater-- what shall I call it? susceptibility to her feelings; which are naturally lively enough. And we all know that Wickham has every charm of person and address that can captivate a woman."(269) -Lizzy talking to Mr. Gardiner about Lydia's elopement "she is not the kind of girl to do such a thing, if she had been well looked after"(273) -Mrs. Bennet defending Lydia's bad decisions and blaming them on the Forresters <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia,serif;">"My Dear Lizzy, I wish you joy. If you love Mr. Darcy half as well as I do my dear Wickham, you must be very happy. It is a great comfort to have you so rich, and when you have nothing else to do, I hope you will think of us. I am sure Wickham would like a place at court very much, and I do not think we shall have quite money enough to live upon without some help. Any place would do, of about three or four hundred a year; but however, do not speak to Mr. Darcy about it, if you had rather not. Your's, &c."(365) -letter from Lydia to Lizzy that shows she still has not changed and doesn't consider the effects her behavior will have on the rest of her family

Catherine Bennet (Katie)

“ Don’t keep coughing so, Kitty, for heaven’s sake! Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.” “ Kitty has no discretion in her coughs” (8) “The two youngest of the family, Catherine and Lydia … their minds were more vacant than their sisters’ and when nothing better offered a walk to Meryton was necessary to amuse their morning hours and furnish conversation for the evening; … they always contrived to learn some from their aunt.” (29)

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you two must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.” “Catherine disconcerted, and made no answer” (30)

“we will go as far as Meryton with you” - Catherine and Lydia (33)

“ Catherine and Lydia Had information for them of a different sort.” (59)

“ To Catherine and Lydia, neither the letter nor its writer were in an degree interesting.” (63)

“ Mr. Collins readily assented … and begging parson, protested that he never read novels. Kitty stared at him, and Lydia exclaimed … “

“All were struck with the stranger’s air, all wondered who he could be, and Kittty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led they way across the street, under pretence of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortuanetly had just gained the pavement when the two gentlemen turning back had reached the same spot.” (71)

“ She had been watching him the last hour, she said, as he walked up and down the street, and had Mr. Wickham appeared Kitty and Lydia would certainly have continued the occupation, but unluckily no one passed the windows now except a few of the officers, who in comparison with the stranger, were become “stupid, disagreeable fellows.” (72)

“The happiness anticipated by Catherine and Lydia, depended less on any single event, or any particular person, for though they each, like Elizabeth, meant to dance half the evening with Mr. Wickham.” (85)

“ Nothing less than a dance on Tuesday, could have made such a Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, endurable to Kitty and Lydia.” (87)

“She sat down again, and tried to conceal by incessant employment the feelings which were divided between distress and diversion. Mrs. Bennet and Kitty walked off, and as soon as they were gone Mr. Collins began.” (103)

“ Charlotte had hardly time to answer, before they were joined by Kitty, who came to tell the same news, an no sooner had they entered the breakfast room, where Mrs. Bennet was alone …” ( 110) “Kitty and Lydia were far from envying Miss Lucas, for Mr. Collins was only a clergyman; and it affected them in no other way than as a piece of news to spread at Meryton.” (125)

“Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly. Kitty and Lydia take his defection much more to heart than I do. They are young in the ways of the world, and not yet open to the mortifying conviction that handsome men must have something to live on, as well as the plain.” (148)

“ Elizabeth had frequently united with Jane in an endeavour to check the imprudence of Catherine and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement? Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; … They were ignorant, idle, and vain. While there was an officer in Meryton, they would flirt with him; and while Meryton was within a walk of Longbourn, they would be going there for ever.” ( 206-7)

“ Dear me! We had such a good piece of fun the other day at Colonel Forster’s! Kitty and me were to spend the day there, and Mrs. Forster promisted to have a little dance in the evening.” (213)

“ We dressed up Chamberlayne in woman’s clothes, on purpose to pass for a lady, … Not a soul knew of it, by Col. And Mrs. Forster, and Kitty and Me, except me aunt, for we were forced to borrom one of her gowns; and you cannot imagine how well he looked!” (213)

“ With such kind of histories of their parties and good jokes, did Lydia, assisted by Kitty’s hints and additions, endecour to amuse her companions all the way to Longbourn,” (213)

“Oh Mary! … I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun! As we went along Kitty and me drew up all the blinds, and pretended there was nobody in the coach; and I should have gone so all the way, if Kitty had not been sick, and when we got to the George, I do think we behaved very handsomely, for we treated the other three with the nicest cold luncheon in the world, and if you would have gone, we could have treated you too.” (214)

“ Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.” ( 221)

“ In this danger Kitty is also comprehended. She will follow wherever Lydia leads. Vain, ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrouled!” (223)

“The seperation between her and her family was rather noisy than pathetic. Kitty was the only one who shed tears; but she did weeop from vexation and envy.” (227)

Mary Bennet (Alex) <span style="display: block; color: rgb(107, 33, 171); font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: left;">-<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mary Bennet is the third Bennet daughter (the middle child) -Mary considers herself intellectual and would rather read than flirt like her sisters - lacks Jane’s beauty, Elizabeth’s sense and wit, and Kitty and Lydia’s obsession with military officers -the odd girl out in the family, and she deals with it by claiming to be the smartest...but she’s not very good at it and ends up irritating everyone - Mr. Bennett- “What say you, Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection I know, and read great books, and make extracts.” (9) -" Mary had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner, which would have injured a higher degree of excellence than she had reached." (25)- she overestimates her own talents and intelligence -Mary is pleased with the Meryton assembly because she " heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accopmlished girl in the neighborhood(14); "in consequence of being the only plain one in the family", she "worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments", and "Was always impatient for display" -"Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him. She rated his abilities much higher than any of the others; there was a solidity in his reflections which often struck her, and though by no means so clever as herself, she thought that if encouraged to read and improve himself by such an example as her's, he might become a very agreeable companion. But on, every hope of this kind was done away."(122)-Mary would like to marry Mr Collins -Lydia-"Oh! Mary, I wish you had gone with us, for we had such fun! Mary-" Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.'' (214)-Mary doesn't care about having fun like her sisters...she would rather read

Mr. Collins (Ryan) Mr. Collins works for Lady Catherine, is not married at first but then becomes eloped with Charlotte Lucas, he is next in the line of heirs to inherit the Bennet's property and estate. He is a very boastful and obsequious character. Although he acts as if his social status is one to be proud of it is actually not and the only ties he has to the upper class are through Lady Catherine. He is a cousin of the bennet girls and serves as a clergyman in his community. He was also liked by the Bennet family at first impression as it says: "Mr. Collins was punctual to his time, and was recieved by the whole family with great politeness" (63). "He was a tall, heavy looking young man of five and twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very fomal." (63). This is a description of Mr. Collins once he is first introduced by the narrator to the novel upon his arrival to the Bennet's estate.

Charlotte Lucas (MaryJane)


 * Elizabeth's best friend
 * neighbor of the Bennets
 * married to Mr. Collins
 * 27 years old
 * oldest child of the Lucases
 * wants to be married for the money
 * only wants a stable life after marriage, doesn't care about love
 * Mr. Bennet doesn't think she's smart
 * "Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!" (125).
 * Mrs. Bennet thinks she's plain
 * "Not that //I// think Charlotte so //very// plain - but then she is our particular friend" (44). -- Mrs. Bennet

<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> =<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">QUOTES: "the eldest of them a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend" (19). "HIs pride does not offend //me// so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it...If I may so express it, he has a //right// to be proud" (21). "If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him" (22). "in nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show //more// affection than she feels" (23). "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance" (24). "...and it is better to know the as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life" (24). "Mr. Collins to be sure was neither sensible or agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary. But still he would be her husband" (120). "Why should you be surprised, my dear Eliza? -- Do you think it incredible that Mr. Collins should be able to procure any woman's good opinion, because he was not so happy as to succeed with you?" (122). "I am not romantic you know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins' character, connections, and situations in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair, as most people can boast on entering the marriage state" (123). =

Sir William Lucas (Garrison)

Sir William Lucas while necessary plays a very small role. He is the father of Charlotte Lucas. He is in the lower upper class because he was not born into the upper class. He made his money in trade in Meryton. He later was knighted and became the owner of Lucas Lodge. He lives a life without working and can focus solely on his social life; " Sir William lucas been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he made a tolerable fortuneand risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King, during his mayorality.The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him a disgust to his buisiness and to his residence in a small market town;and quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could with pleasure of his own importance, and unshackled by buisiness, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world" (19). He also knows his place in society and does not say much; "In spite of having been at St. James's, Sir William was so completly awed, by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word" (158-159). He is a small simple static character.

Mrs. Gardiner (Nick)
 * Mrs.Gardiner is a static character
 * "Mrs.Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mrs.Bennet and Mrs.Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman, and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces" (137).
 * They are better parents to the Bennet daughters than Mr. and Mrs.Bennet

Mr. Gardiner (Richie) <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana;">Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education. The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well bred and agreeable. (136) a descriprion of Mr. Gardiner and how he is different from other men.

He is always looking for ways to help others.

Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either from pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister. (237-238) How polite of a person Mr. Gardiner is

“I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth,'' said her uncle as they drove from the town; “and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does of the matter. It appears to me so very unlikely that any young man should form such a design against a girl who is by no means unprotected or friendless, and who was actually staying in his colonel's family, that I am strongly inclined to hope the best”. (268) Mr. Gardiner says that even if Lydia has eloped with Wickham, he still wishes her his best wishes. <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana;">MY DEAR SIR,

I feel myself called upon by our relationship, and my situation in life, to condole with you on the grievous affliction you are now suffering under, of which we were yesterday informed by a letter from Hertfordshire. Be assured, my dear Sir, that Mrs. Collins and myself sincerely sympathise with you, and all your respectable family, in your present distress, which must be of the bitterest kind, because proceeding from a cause which no time can remove. No arguments shall be wanting on my part that can alleviate so severe a misfortune; or that may comfort you, under a circumstance that must be of all others most afflicting to a parent's mind. The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this. And it is the more to be lamented, because there is reason to suppose, as my dear Charlotte informs me, that this licentiousness of behaviour in your daughter has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence, though at the same time, for the consolation of yourself and Mrs. Bennet, I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity at so early an age. Howsoever that may be, you are grievously to be pitied, in which opinion I am not only joined by Mrs. Collins, but likewise by Lady Catherine and her daughter, to whom I have related the affair. They agree with me in apprehending that this false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family. And this consideration leads me moreover to reflect with augmented satisfaction on a certain event of last November, for had it been otherwise, I must have been involved in all your sorrow and disgrace. Let me advise you then, my dear Sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection for ever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offence.

I am dear Sir, &c. &c. (281-282) This is a letter on the status of Wickham and Lydia

Mr. Gardiner had waited only for the letters before he set off. When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting, to prevail on Mr. Bennet to return to Longbourn as soon as he could, to the great consolation of his sister, who considered it as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel. (279) Everyone is very nervous that he is leaving, but he said that he will not be gone long. None of the people want to see him in a dangerous place.

Mr. Gardiner himself did not expect any success from this measure, but as his brother was eager in it, he meant to assist him in pursuing it. He added that Mr. Bennet seemed wholly disinclined at present, to leave London, and promised to write again very soon. There was also a postscript to this effect:

“I have written to Colonel Forster to desire him to find out, if possible, from some of the young man's intimates in the regiment, whether Wickham has any relations or connections who would be likely to know in what part of the town he has now concealed himself. If there were any one that one could apply to with a probability of gaining such a clue as that, it might be of essential consequence. At present we have nothing to guide us. Colonel Forster will, I dare say, do every thing in his power to satisfy us on this head. But, on second thoughts, perhaps Lizzy could tell us what relations he has now living better than any other person.'' (280) He is the person that keeps up with all the news of Wickham and darcy, and promises again he will be back soon. <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana;">MY DEAR BROTHER,

At last I am able to send you some tidings of my niece, and such as, upon the whole, I hope will give you satisfaction. Soon after you left me on Saturday, I was fortunate enough to find out in what part of London they were. The particulars I reserve till we meet. It is enough to know they are discovered; I have seen them both --''

“Then it is as I always hoped, cried Jane; “they are married!

Elizabeth read on:

“I have seen them both. They are not married, nor can I find there was any intention of being so; but if you are willing to perform the engagements which I have ventured to make on your side, I hope it will not be long before they are. All that is required of you is to assure to your daughter, by settlement, her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister; and, moreover, to enter into an engagement of allowing her, during your life, one hundred pounds per annum. These are conditions which, considering every thing, I had no hesitation in complying with, as far as I thought myself privileged, for you. I shall send this by express, that no time may be lost in bringing me your answer. You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be. The world has been deceived in that respect; and, I am happy to say, there will be some little money, even when all his debts are discharged, to settle on my niece, in addition to her own fortune. If, as I conclude will be the case, you send me full powers to act in your name throughout the whole of this business, I will immediately give directions to Haggerston for preparing a proper settlement. There will not be the smallest occasion for your coming to town again; therefore, stay quietly at Longbourn, and depend on my diligence and care. Send back your answer as soon as you can, and be careful to write explicitly. We have judged it best that my niece should be married from this house, of which I hope you will approve. She comes to us to-day. I shall write again as soon as any thing more is determined on. Yours, &c.

EDW. GARDINER.'' (286-287)

=<span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(5, 155, 184);">Caroline Bingley (Hannah) = <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> = = <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> =<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Quotes: "Miss Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's progress through //his// own book, as in reading her own..." (54) //She tried to do anything she could to get attention from Mr. Darcy// "His sisters were very anxious for his having an estate of his own; but though he was no established only as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table, nor was Mrs. Hurst..." (17-18) //Rude and only cares about wealth// "We shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whol days tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel." (31) = =<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Interacting with the Bennet's means there might be a fight// = =<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Miss Eliza Bennet despises cards. She is a great reader and has no please in anything else." (37) = =<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Eliza Bennet, is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, i dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is paltry device, a very mean art." (39-40) = =<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Miss Bingley's opinion on Elizabeth Bennet// "Oh! Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his workds, and blots the rest." (47) = =<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Makes fun of her own brother.// =
 * self-absorbed, selfish lady. she only cares about herself and what she wants
 * Younger sister of Mr. Bingley and Mrs. Hurst is her sister
 * She does not like the Bennet family because of their social status and because Mr. Darcy loves Elizabeth
 * Caroline is crazy jealous of Elizabeth and Darcy. She loves Mr. Darcy and wants him to herself.
 * Her wealth makes her so full of herself

Mrs. Hurst (Meg) <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 33);">Quotes: [at the first ball]-"Mr. Darcy danced only once with Mrs. Hurst and one with Miss. Bingley."(13)-this is where Mrs. Hurst is first introduced into the book. "His sisters were very anxious for [Mr. Bingley] having an estate of his own; but though ne was now established only as a tenant, Miss Bingly was by no means unwilling to preside at his table, nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married a man of more fashion than fortune, less disposed to consider his house as her home when it suited her."(12-13) "Mrs. Hurst and her sister allowed it to be so- but still they admired [Jane] and liked her, and pronounced her to be a sweet girl, and one whom they should not object to know more of."(18) "Miss. Bennet's pleasing manners grew on the good will of Mrs. Hurst and Miss. Bingley."(22) "That [Elizabeth] should have walked three miles so early in the day, in such a dirty weather, and by herself, was almost incredible to Mrs. Hurst and Miss. Bingley."(33) "[Elizabeth] has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearence this morning. She really looked almost wild."(36) `I have an excessive regard for Jane Bennet, she is really a very sweet girl, and I wish with all my heart she were well settled. But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am afraid there is no chance of it.''(36) Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley both cried out against the injustice of her implied doubt, and were both protesting that they knew many women who answered this description. (39) `You used us abominably ill, answered Mrs. Hurst, ``in running away without telling us that you were coming out. Then taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself. The path just admitted three. (51) Darcy took up a book; Miss Bingley did the same; and Mrs. Hurst, principally occupied in playing with her bracelets and rings.( 53) Mrs. Hurst and her sister scarcely opened their mouths except to complain of fatigue, and were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves. (100) In this room they were received by Miss Darcy, who was sitting there with Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley, and the lady with whom she lived in London. (255) By Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley, they were noticed only by a curtsey; and on their being seated, a pause, awkward as such pauses must always be, succeeded for a few moments. (255)

Character Traits: Louisa Hurst is the wife of Mr. Hurst and the sister of Mr. Charles Bingley and Miss. Caroline Bingley. Mrs. Hurst is extremely class-conscious and she looks down upon Elizabeth and the Gardiners for their lower social status. The way that Mrs. Hurst treats the lower class is proof that she lacks any genuine good breeding or nobility of character. She is proud and spends most of her time gossiping with Miss. Bingley. She seems to have no real affection or admiration for her husband. She plots with her sister to remove their brother's affection from Jane Bennet and transfer it to someone more suitable, such as Georgiana Darcy. Jane considers Mrs. Hurst charming, (but Jane sees the good in everyone and refuses to see faults in anyone.)

Mr. Hurst (Manolo) Mr. Hurst is of Grosvenor street and is married to Louisa Bingeley. "He was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards, who, when he found her prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her." He does nothing but eat and entertain himself. He doesn't seem to say anything greatly important in the entire book. He only seems to be worried about food.

Georgiana Darcy (Callan) <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(255, 0, 201); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Though little more than sixteen, her figure was formed, and her appearance womanly and graceful." "She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller." <span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(255, 0, 201);">"Such a countenance, such manners, and so extremely accomplished for her age! Her performance on the piano is exquisite." <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(255, 0, 201); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"She was less handsome than her brother, but there was sense and good humor in her face, and her manners were perfectly unassuming and gentle." <span style="font-size: 85%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(255, 0, 201);">George Wickham: "...she is too much like her brother,--very, very proud. But she is nothing to me now. She is a handsome girl, and I understand, highly accomplished." Caroline Bingley: "I do not think she has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; to confess the truth, we are scarcely less eager to meet her again." <span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(255, 0, 201); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Elizabeth Bennet: the first time she meets her she finds it "difficult to obtain even a word from her beyond a monosyllable." While Wickham thinks she is overly proud, Elizabeth finds in "the observation of a very few minutes that Georgiana is only exceedingly shy." <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(136, 0, 255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="color: rgb(169, 0, 255);">Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Kelsey)- Lady Catherine is a member of the Darcy family. She is referred to as "Lady" followed by her first name because she is the daughter of a higher nobleman. Darcy is the nephew of Lady Catherine. People like Collins "bow down" to her, which just feeds her ego.

pysical characteristics: "I like her appearance," said Elizabeth, struck with other ideas. "She looks sickly and cross. Yes, she will do for him very well. She will make him a very proper wife." (Ch. 28)

character traits: Lady Catherine believes she can command everyone just because of her money and social status. She is egotistical and domineering. She "needs" to be in control at all times. Austen uses her as a symbol of the upperclass who use their money with their power to rule society.

what other characters think of your character: she is egotisical and power hungry. people don't like her, but most are intimidated by her or just let her have her way because its easier.

Quotes:

"Yes, Miss Elizabeth, you will have the honour of seeing Lady Catherine de Bourgh on the ensuing Sunday at church, and I need not say you will be delighted with her. She is all affability and condescension, and I doubt not but you will be honoured with some portion of her notice when service is over. I have scarcely any hesitation in saying she will include you and my sister Maria in every invitation with which she honours us during your stay here. Her behaviour to my dear Charlotte is charming. We dine at Rosings twice every week, and are never allowed to walk home. Her ladyship's carriage is regularly ordered for us. I SHOULD say, one of her ladyship's carriages, for she has several." Flaunting money and power.

"Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman indeed, added Charlotte, "and a most attentive neighbour."

"Very true, my dear, that is exactly what I say. She is the sort of woman whom one cannot regard with too much deference." She is so egotistical that people cannot even please her.

Colonel Fitzwilliam (Ben)

Mrs. Phillips (Morgan)

<span style="color: rgb(250, 0, 210);">**Mrs. Bennet's brother-in-law, Mr. Philips is an attorney. He hosts the party at which Wickham tells Elizabeth about Darcy's withholding a promised legacy. Already having a negative first impression of Darqy, Elizabeth unquestioningly accepts Wickham's story as evidence that Darcy is a miserable person. When she discovers that it is actually Wickham who wronged Darcy, Elizabeth feels terrible for allowing her pride to interfere with an objective judgement of Darcy.

Mr. Collins <span style="color: rgb(255, 10, 194);">seemed likely to sink into insignificance; to the young ladies he certainly was nothing; but he had still at intervals a kind listener in Mrs. Philips****<span style="color: rgb(255, 10, 194);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and was, by her watchfulness, most abundantly supplied with coffee and muffin." (Ch 16) ``I know little of the game, at present, said he, ``but I shall be glad to improve myself, for in my situation of life -- Mrs. Philips** **was very thankful for his compliance, but could not wait for his reason. (Ch 16)

"but when Mrs. Philips understood from him what Rosings was, and who was its proprietor, when she had listened to the description of only one of Lady Catherine's drawing-rooms****, and found that the chimney-piece alone had cost eight hundred pounds, she felt all the force of the compliment, and would hardly have resented a comparison with the housekeeper's room." (Ch 16)

Mrs. Philips a very attentive listener, whose opinion of his consequence increased with what she heard, and who was resolving to retail it all among her neighbours as soon as she could." (Ch16)**