Pride and Prejudice Chapters 2-4

Alright everyone lets jump back into the thrilling epic of P&P. These next couple of chapters group together very nicely because they cover the meeting of the Bingley's and the Bennets for the first time and each person's reactions to each other,

Chapters 2-4

*First we see more of Mr. B's humor as he sets up meetings with Mr. Bingley without telling his wife just so he can mess with her until he is tired of her "raptures" and quickly retires to his library, his refuge from his insane wife. Mrs. B shows her first bought of nerves and we as the readers wish for the ability to smack her, not for the first time. Mrs. B is one of the most annoying characters I have ever come across in a book, and I have read a good deal of books.

So far the FIVE daughters go in this general order. Oldest is Jane. Jane is also the prettiest and is way to nice. She reminds me of Tohru from Fruit Basket (girl to the right). She sees the good in everyone, makes excuses for any and all bad behavior, and blindly trusts people until they make it blatant that they are trying to be mean. She is the flawless, lovely girl who you inevitably end up want to smack or shake by the time you get a few more chapters in.

Second on the list of daughters is Elizabeth or Lizzy. Lizzy is still considered handsome (although at this point not handsome enough for Darcy who we will meet in a moment). Lizzy is probably the wisest of her sisters who has a deep relationship with Jane and Mr. B but less of one with almost anyone else, she sees the world for its flaws and is rarely impressed by anyone but Jane. Honestly I can't come up with a good comparison for her yet, so I'll work on that for next time. The most important thing that happens to Lizzy in this chapter is that she is insulted by Mr. Darcy who pretty much says she just isn't pretty enough for him to dance with. Lizzy, being ever the prideful one, laughs this off to her friends and decides that she hates him.

The rest of the daughters are Mary, Catherine, and Lydia. Mary is the book smart over achiever who thinks way to highly of herself, Catherine (also known as Kitty) and Lydia are still young enough to be content with being danced with for every dance and are pretty much unimportant at this point.

Next we come to the Bingley group. Mr. Bingley is young, rich, handsome, nice to talk to, and extremely polite to everyone. All the people at the dance fall in love with him and even the men agree that he is nice to look at. Honestly at this point I'm going with Tamaki for his comparison picture. He proves himself to be the prince of the ball and is happy to approve of all the ladies at the ball as beautiful. He also takes an immediate liking to Jane because, well who wouldn't she's perfect. He dances with her a total of four dances, the count by twos, and decides at the end of the day that she is an angel whom as no equal in beauty. (Yup all I can see is Tamaki.)

The Bingley sisters are queen bee types, total Mean Girls. They agree that Jane is nice enough but they are so fake that Lizzy can see right through them. They are pegged as being fake by Lizzy who somehow knows that they associate with titled society and spend way too much money. One is married to a husband who pretty much eats and plays cards and does little else (we will see that in the next few chapters) and the other is single and plans to take care of her brother's house until she gets her own.

Then finally we come to Mr. Darcy. When he walks in the room everyone sees him as being way more attractive than Mr. Bingley, and obviously from better breeding. However within about a half hour the whole room knows how prideful and arrogant. Darcy sees himself as being above everyone there and even insults Lizzy by looking at her for a moment in order to assure himself that she wasn't pretty enough for his attention.It isn't anything personal though, he sees everyone from this small country town to be pathetic, poor, and unfashionable. I have chosen Kyouya as our picture representative.

^ As for plot I pretty much covered it already. So far we have met some key characters, and gone to a dance that left some people with daydreams (Jane and Bingley) and left others with a bad taste (Lizzy and Darcy) and Mrs. B is already thinking of weddings, but don't mind her she does that a lot.

~ My personal feelings other than about characters is that the first time through it was easy to get lost, however I seem to have gotten used to Austin's way of never using anyone's first name and just hoping that the context of the situation will tell you who she is referring to. Other than that everything is still going pretty slow.

I will be hopefully getting more up for everyone who may be reading this tomorrow. I will be tweetering when I post them all if you have any questions feel free to find me at @KauruRoss.

Hope you enjoyed the review!

Until Next Time,

Ross

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