Darcy's insufferably snobbish aunt and the Gardiners, Jane and Elizabeth's low-born but noble-hearted aunt and uncle. Collins, the sycophantic clergyman who aspires to Lizzy's hand but settles for her best friend, Charlotte, instead Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr. Having set up the central misunderstanding of the novel, Austen then brings in her cast of fascinating secondary characters: Mr.
His excessive pride offends Lizzy, who is more than willing to believe the worst that other people have to say of him when George Wickham, a soldier stationed in the village, does indeed have a discreditable tale to tell, his words fall on fertile ground. Bennet's vulgarity and the untoward behavior of the three younger daughters, he is unable to see the true worth of the older girls, Jane and Elizabeth. Bingley is complaisant and easily charmed by the eldest Bennet girl, Jane Darcy, however, is harder to please. Bennet, who married above her station, sees their arrival as an opportunity to marry off at least one of her five daughters. Bingley, a single man of good fortune, and his friend, Mr. As usual, Austen trains her sights on a country village and a few families-in this case, the Bennets, the Philips, and the Lucases. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage-tracing the intricacies (not to mention the economics) of 19th-century British mating rituals with a sure hand and an unblinking eye. Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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