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Okay so this chapter starts off with the rest of the group gone to Rosings and Lizzy, still fuming, is reading through all of her letters from Jane in an attempt to look at them through her newly discovered "truth" about Mr. Darcy. She is fuming away when who should show up but Darcy himself.
Now picture this with me. The group shows up at the Rossings estate without Lizzy, they inform the other group that she is sick and immediately Darcy finds a way to get to the house to see her and he automatically starts asking her how she is feeling and if she is feeling better. After a few minutes of awkward silence with him walking pacing the room and acting strange he blurts out
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell
you how ardently I admire and love you."
Out of pure shock and disbelief Lizzy can do nothing but blush and stare at him while he continues to express his thoughts and feelings. He kind of ruins it though because he starts talking about how he is sacrificing a lot including the promise of good family connections to marry into such a family as Lizzy's. Which allows her to stop feeling bad about how bad she is about to shatter him. When she responds it is very blunt and almost cold. This ticks Darcy off because how dare she turn him down. and he very angrily asks why she turned him down and why the response she gave was so short. Lizzy replies with,
"I might as well enquire (old spelling)... why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting
me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against
your character?... do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has
been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?"
Lizzy continues to complain about his role and challenges him that he cannot deny how he ripped Jane and Bingley apart, even when it caused both of them pain and may lead to neither of them finding real happiness. At this point it says "He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity." And honestly all I can think of is that he is in so much shock that this being the thing that turned her off his literally just making his sanity crack a little bit. To his credit he listens to every reason that she has against him without interrupting or correcting her even though she doesn't know the full story of anything she is at current blaming him for doing.
Even when she brings up how he supposedly wrecks Wickhams life he says very little and his ultimate response ends up being that she would have married him if he had left out the part about how hard it was for him to give in to loving her. If he had only not mentioned how he had gone against everything that society and his upbringing had been telling him then she would have said yes.
This gets Lizzy even more angry and she actually says some things she really shouldn't have said like,
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have
tempted me to accept it."
Literary analysis time. Notice that she has so far used the word tempted twice. She is about to allude back to the first time that they had met and go off on a short tangent about how he has always been rude around and to her. The fact that tempted is used twice should remind us of the first ball that they both attended together and he in fact makes the comment that Lizzy is "not handsome enough to tempt" him. This reuse of the word brings the reader back to the time when instead of cheering for Darcy we all hated him.
After she gets through telling him about himself and all of his rude, prideful, jerk-like faults he replies with saying she has said enough and he angrily apologizes for wasting her time and wishes her happiness and quickly leaves.
Lizzy looses all of her energy and sits down and cries for a half and hour. It is right about now that she begins to appreciate the reason why Darcy was telling her all the things about going against his reason and judgement. "So much love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend's marrying her sister."
When she hears the carriage pull up and announce that the rest of the household is back she hides herself in her room.
Because of all the feels I have decided to do this chapter and the next on their own and then I will pick back up with a few chapters at a time. Please do not give up on the story it gets better I promise. Trust me I refused to read this book for a week when I got to this chapter because I just could not handle the emotions that went with it. I would also encourage you to actually read the book because the emotions and the feels are higher and there are bits and pieces to the conversations that we skip over in these posts.
Thank you all for reading the blog, I hope you will continue to do so! I am now plugged into Google+ for those who care. Please follow me on the Twitter's @KauruRoss and don't forget to become my faithful minions!
With great compassion for your feels,
Ross
Now picture this with me. The group shows up at the Rossings estate without Lizzy, they inform the other group that she is sick and immediately Darcy finds a way to get to the house to see her and he automatically starts asking her how she is feeling and if she is feeling better. After a few minutes of awkward silence with him walking pacing the room and acting strange he blurts out
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell
you how ardently I admire and love you."
"I might as well enquire (old spelling)... why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting
me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against
your character?... do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has
been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?"
Lizzy continues to complain about his role and challenges him that he cannot deny how he ripped Jane and Bingley apart, even when it caused both of them pain and may lead to neither of them finding real happiness. At this point it says "He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity." And honestly all I can think of is that he is in so much shock that this being the thing that turned her off his literally just making his sanity crack a little bit. To his credit he listens to every reason that she has against him without interrupting or correcting her even though she doesn't know the full story of anything she is at current blaming him for doing.
This gets Lizzy even more angry and she actually says some things she really shouldn't have said like,
"You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have
tempted me to accept it."
Literary analysis time. Notice that she has so far used the word tempted twice. She is about to allude back to the first time that they had met and go off on a short tangent about how he has always been rude around and to her. The fact that tempted is used twice should remind us of the first ball that they both attended together and he in fact makes the comment that Lizzy is "not handsome enough to tempt" him. This reuse of the word brings the reader back to the time when instead of cheering for Darcy we all hated him.
After she gets through telling him about himself and all of his rude, prideful, jerk-like faults he replies with saying she has said enough and he angrily apologizes for wasting her time and wishes her happiness and quickly leaves.
Lizzy looses all of her energy and sits down and cries for a half and hour. It is right about now that she begins to appreciate the reason why Darcy was telling her all the things about going against his reason and judgement. "So much love as to wish to marry her in spite of all the objections which had made him prevent his friend's marrying her sister."
When she hears the carriage pull up and announce that the rest of the household is back she hides herself in her room.
Because of all the feels I have decided to do this chapter and the next on their own and then I will pick back up with a few chapters at a time. Please do not give up on the story it gets better I promise. Trust me I refused to read this book for a week when I got to this chapter because I just could not handle the emotions that went with it. I would also encourage you to actually read the book because the emotions and the feels are higher and there are bits and pieces to the conversations that we skip over in these posts.
Thank you all for reading the blog, I hope you will continue to do so! I am now plugged into Google+ for those who care. Please follow me on the Twitter's @KauruRoss and don't forget to become my faithful minions!
With great compassion for your feels,
Ross
