Major Character Flaws

Let me just say that there are two kinds of people in the world. Genuinely nice people, and then, the not so genuine. Now Jane, for example, is a genuinely nice person. Sweet and sincere, she always has nice things to say about everyone, she is "honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others" (p.10 Pride and Prejudice). However, her companions are slightly otherwise. The two ladies who have found interest in Jane and are very sweet to her, do not express the same feelings to her sister, or her family for that matter. When Elizabeth enters the room, Mrs. Hurst, and Miss Bingley are all politeness and civilty, but when she leaves them to their selves, she leaves "her own and her relation's behaviour to the remarks of the two ladies" (p. 34). How disgusting. These two women really need to figure out how to be nice people.

And what is with Miss Bingley? She is throwing herself all over Mr. Darcy, and is completely blind to the fact that he obviously does not like her. A nuisance and slightly stupid (for lack of a better word) she has no other way of making conversation with Mr. Darcy but to tease him about his admiration for Elizabeth. You'd think that she would just give up already!

I love the part where he is trying to write a letter, and she persistentley interrupts him with comments like"Pray tell your sister that I long to see her" (p. 35) and his response is even more hilarious "I have already told her so once, by your desire." And her response gets even funnier, she switches the topic to tell him to let her fix his pen, because she "mend[s] pens remarkably well." I had to laugh out loud at all of this conversation. One of my least favorite characters in this book, she is a very stuck up lady who thinks very lowly of other people.

She reminds me of Regina from Mean Girls. Both think they are the best people ever, they talk about people behind their backs, and try to get the guy that likes someone else. Yep, girl "bad" has not changed over the years.