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.