Books As I See Them

Chapter Five:
                   Okay I love this chapter. We get started with the introduction of a few new characters the Lucas family. Sir William Lucas who used to own a large business but once he got knighted decided that he owed it to the rest of society to retire and become really good at being a Knight... Um okay drama queen you go ahead and leave your job and your nice town house just to be nice to people who live in the country, that makes sense. Then we meet Charlotte who is the daughter of the Lucas' (Luci?) and who was the first person to dance with Mr. Bingley (Tamaki for those who need faces). Now Mrs. B is talking to Charlotte and Mrs. B would not be Mrs. B if she left out an opportunity to brag, a lot. So she actually makes Charlotte admit that Mr. Bingley was overheard saying the Jane was the prettiest girl in the room and that it was obvious that he (Mr. Bingley) liked Jane the most. Charlotte returns by adding in that Mr. Darcy had been caught saying Lizzy was ugly and Mrs. B shrugs it off, she doesn't really like Lizzy anyway so who cares. 
          Okay now lets take a breath. I am beginning to have mixed feelings about Mrs. B. Part of me agrees that she is a jerk because she treats poor Lizzy like a second-rate-daughter just because she isn't as pretty as her older sister (oh and she has a mind of her own), but on the other hand she is also ridiculously clever when it comes to shoving her good news in peoples faces.
     We get to hear some gossip that Darcy might not be as disagreeable with his friends as he is with everyone else. But the most important part of this chapter is that we learn more about Miss Lizzy the Proud. First she makes her first vow *spoilers she breaks it* to never dance with Mr. Darcy and explains her dislike for him by saying she "could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified [hers]." I have decided to use Haruhi as Lizzy for lack of a better character to use as a stand in visual she is the most like Lizzy though I admit it was hard to think of another female character from anything that is so rationally prideful and yet awesome at the same time.
        As a side not we get a definition of Pride via Mary the every present dictionary/show-off. Also we get a laugh from Mrs. Lucas and her son who argues that Mr. Darcy has a right to be prideful without caring about a reputation and the young lord argues that if he were that rich he would "drink a bottle of wine a day" to which his mother replies, and then you would drink too much. I wish little Lucas would show up more often in the book. 

Chapter 6
     This starts with the Bennets getting to know the Bingley girls more. These girls manage to deceive Jane by flaunting their brother in front of her but Lizzy sees them as many of us see the plastics in Mean Girls. In other words they are stuck up snobs who wish to encourage Jane liking Bingley for the mere fun of having something to do.  
    This chapter is important because we get a working definition of love from Miss Charlotte. Charlotte argues that women have to express more love than they feel to win the affections of men and then after they have it they can see if they actually like the guy. Charlotte needs therapy,but because of her time era I suppose we can give her a break. I can not find you a stand in image for her because she is impossible and annoying with how, as my English Professor would say, pragmatic she is about everything.  
     During this conversation of love we see Lizzy and Charlotte's friendship and Lizzy's love for her sister. Lizzy says that Charlotte has a good plan if you take emotions out of it, but Jane is full of emotions she cannot control and she lacks a lot of experience with Mr. Bingley. Charlotte, ever the annoying one, says that  four dinners, four dances, and an appearance at his house is plenty of time to get to know a man enough to start throwing affection at him. There is a lot of differing ideas about marriage in this chapter such as how well should you know someone before you marry them. Lizzy is obviously in-tuned to the fact that emotions come into play and should be considered but Charlotte argues that the less you know about someone the happier your marriage will be.
  Chapter 6 is wordy but relatively important in relation to how the characters are viewing love and it leads up to why they make some of the decisions that they do latter on in the book. The best part of this chapter is Mr. Darcy.
     Mr. Darcy gets the chance to silently stalk Lizzy. He watches her as she watches her sister and Bingley and tries to convince himself that she isn't pretty and fails. He finds her eyes "intelligent" and "beautiful" and then he says well her body isn't perfect but its "pleasing" and tries to convince himself that her manners are bad and then allows that it is adorable because of its "playful" nature. So in other words, he begins to fall in love with her and she has no idea. Thus starts the agonizing cat and mouse chase. He loves her, she is oblivious, and you are frustrated and end up dead on the floor screaming "THE FEELS". First, after deciding that she was now attractive to him, he tries to get the courage up to talk to her via listening in to her conversations with other people. Than he tries to accept an offer to dance with her and Lizzy, still thinking that he is trying to make fun of her or some other mean thing, she refuses to dance with him. He falls harder when she plays hard to get and when the unmarried Bingley sister assumes he will agree with her that the people there are annoying (after acting like they are friends) he surprises her by saying (I imagine dreamily) that he is quite content with the people in the room, mainly with Lizzy. Darcy ignores Miss Bingley as she drones on about how bad it would be to be married into Lizzy's family and though no one can tell, he is secretly dreaming of Lizzy.

Okay everyone sorry this one was really long and only covered two chapters but I will hopefully get us caught up soon. I hope you enjoyed the edition of Pride and Prejudice as much as I enjoyed writing it, although at this point it would be quicker to read the book. But hey then what would I do? ^_^  For noobs you can follow me at @KauruRoss on twitter or as I like to call it tweeter. 
Your's ever more,
Ross