okay, so sometime during this book, darcy eventually proposes to Elizabeth, only to be R E J E C T E D. ohhh. burn. ;]
Well, i wouldnt blame elizabeth, after all, the first time she met him, he pretty much put her and all her friends down. also, from what Wickham had told her, he was a greedy, selfish man. Who could love him?

Eventually, he gives her a letter telling her that yes, he DID take the money from his father's inheritance, BUT he payed for Wickham's expenses. Wickham ALSO tried to make Georgiana, darcy's sister, fall in love with him. But he only planned to marry her for her money. Now does he sound like a better person?

Lizzy starts to think better of Darcy, now that she's seen that he's willing to tell her and explain to her what was really the truth. When Lizzy rejected him, Darcy's pride just...colapsed. I guess he wanted to, in a sense, retaliate? Because if he could prove her wrong and set things straight, she would feel bad, and mght even come to love him for the man he "truly" is.

When the sisters come back, their younger sisters, lydia and catherine, who pretty much spent everyday staring at soldiers. Lydia gets invited to come with a colonel's wife, and Mr. Bennet allows her to go. But, does he know about her infatuation for soldiers??

i think that the symbol in this part of my reading may be that letter, because the letter, which darcy handed to Lizzy, turned her entire [or most] view of him. It was like, the turning point of this story, possibly.

yea ok, i posted comments on fahmida's, calvin's, and jodiann's

oh goshh. Lizzy is still sulking. Well, Charlotte and Collins finally got married, and they're inviting lizzy, Charlotte's father, and her sister over to visit. I wonder how that'll go....
Oh, and by the way, Jane is in London on a trip with her Aunt and Uncle, the Gardiners. [haha, gardening. lolll]
So, on the way to visit the newly wed couple, Elizabeth and the Lucases [Charlotte's maiden name] stop by to check on Jane. Mrs. Gardiner talks about how Wickham, the guy that sort of captivated Elizabeth, is trying to seduce Miss King, a wealthy young woman. The aunt critizes him and says how he's just a "mercenary" and that he just wants money and the only reason why he didnt end up with Lizzy was because if he, a poor man, married an equally poor girl, well, imagine it. yea.

WATEVER. IDC IF IM A SLOW READER!!! D:<
lol, sry i needed to vent. phewwwww. ok changing back to proper english now =DD

Okay, so we left off where poor Jane had her heart broken, and stupid Bingley's sisters only wanted "the best for their brother"

Actually, the girl that Bingley is going to marry is that stupid *coughs*jackass*coughs* sister, Miss Darcy. I don't think Jane or any of the Bennets, except for Mrs. Bennet, has any ill feelings towards her though, because she is an accomplished young lady, AND they haven't ever met her before, so they can't really have any judgements.

Well, as if THAT wasn't enough, poor Lizzy has to suffer. When the girls hang out around the town (or whatever they would call it), Mr. Collins came with them, but he felt sorta left out. Lizzy sees this, so she sticks him with her best friend, Charlotte Lucas. Lizzy intends to get him off of her and to keep him occupied, but Charlotte takes it as an opportunity to steal him away. Of course, Collins proposes to her, and the Lucases accept. (personally, i think stupid Collins is WAYYY too unstable. WHAT A JERK.) Anyways, Collins and Charlotte keep the proposal to themselves; and after he leaves town to prepare for the wedding, LIzzy is informed by her friend.

"Engaged to Mr. Collins! My dear Charlotte—impossible!"

"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?"

I think that's a slap in the face to Lizzy, but she wasn't jealous at all!!! She knew that her friend was better than that, which is WHY she declined the proposal. But Charlotte wanted the "best for her family", which was to marry a wealthy, successful man. Lizzy knew that Collins was, in a sense, dirt, unworth it, crap, etc. Lizzy was losing her friend AND was losing her to this horrible jerk that doesn't even deserve a woman like Charlotte.

So far, this story is about the Bennets, whose mother wants only for her daughter to marry rich, successful men, and whose father is silent and keeps to himself. Jane is the oldest, pretty, and catches the eye of Mr. Bingley, a very rich man, whose sisters don't really like the Bennets. Elizabeth, a young girl that doesn't really have any interests in men, rejects a clergyman's proposal (Mr. Collins), ignores a successful man who is interested in her(Mr. Darcy), and falls in love with a man who people have suspicions about(Wickham). Wickham convices Lizzy that Darcy is a selfish man who took away his opportunity to become a minister.
Elizabeth seems to attract many men's eyes, particularly Darcy, which upsets Miss Bingley. Miss Bingley is Bingley's sister, who is interested in Darcy, and is jealous of Lizzy because of that.
Jane, who caught Bingley's eye at the first ball they had together, had danced with him twice in one night. She thought for sure that they were perfect together, until she receives a letter from him saying that he was going to marry this other girl. And of course, she's heartbroken.

Pride and Prejudice
~Jane Austen
-Lived Dec. 16, 1775-July 18 1817
-educated through her father, brothers, and reading books
-wrote three major novels
I chose this book because it is a classic, and many people have enjoyed reading it.
This book seems kind of boring at first, but you know, you can never judge a book by its cover :]
If I read about 100 pages a week, it would take me about 3 and a half weeks to finish this book.