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Hello everyone. Today we will actually get back into the meat of the story!
Chapter 40
Chapter forty is Elizabeth telling Jane about what happened with Darcy and his letter. Lizzy tells everything about the proposal and about her response. Jane is so sweet that though she acknowledges that Darcy should have been more careful with what he said and that he should not have been "so sure of succeeding," she also sees how much pain Lizzy's refusal must have caused him. Then Lizzy goes on to tell her about the Wickham part of the letter. Again Jane's soft side shows itself when she tries to find a way to justify both men's actions without making one of them out to be a bad guy. Lizzy argues that there is no way to do so and that Jane must simply pick one and agree with that particular story. Interestingly Lizzy has joined team Darcy so woot for her.
On a literary note we see that Elizabeth is continuing to grow as she twice points out her past folly and prejudice and shows signs of guilt. Lizzy is beginning to accept that she has judged people unfairly and willing agrees that her guilt is a consequence "of the prejudices [she] had been encouraging."
The girls decide not to tell anyone else about what they have learned about Wickham because it is one, not their business to start telling everyone about what happened between Wickham and Darcy and two, because there would be no way to convince the people of the town that Wickham was a bad man since so many already loved him and believed Darcy to be a pompous jerk-face. Lizzy comforts herself with the knowledge that Wickham will be leaving town soon and that eventually the truth of his nature would out itself and then the two girls could laugh at everyone for being so stupid. I might add that that is rich coming from Lizzy since Darcy could have very well laughed directly in her face had he not been so down right angry about her turning down his proposal of marriage at the time.
Lizzy resolves never to tell Jane of what happened between Darcy and Bingley until the day comes that Bingley has returned and has resolved the issue himself. She says "The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!" If only people did that all the time then there would be a lot less drama due to gossip. The main reason that Lizzy is not telling Jane about Darcy breaking them up is because she is protecting her. If Jane found out that the main reasons she lost Bingley was because she didn't show her affection enough and because her family is full of idiots it would only make her still very present depression worse.
The chapter ends with Mrs. B being an idiot again. She is talking to Lizzy about Jane and Bingley and after talking about how sad it all is says that her "comfort is, [she] is sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done." Yeah that's right. She hopes that Jane DIES of a broken hear so as to make Bingley feel bad...
I feel the need to move on.
Anyway she also complains some more about the Collinses because they have a decent amount of money and they probably lay awake at night talking about how much they want Mr. B to die so that they can have his house because that is obviously what they do...
Chapter 41
This chapter starts off with a little humor. The soldier boys who have been stationed in town are moving to Brighton which is a beach apparently filled with nice vacation homes. All the unmarried girls in town are upset and dreary but Lydia and Kitty are insanely upset. The only people who don't seem to care are Lizzy and Jane who are going about their normal business and apparently laughing at Lydia and Kitty. Mrs. B is all dramatic about the soldier she had crushed on when she was a young girl and they try to convince Mr. B that they should all go to Brighton for vacation *cough* and to follow the hot uniforms *cough*. Mr. B says no obviously.
But then there is Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Foster is a young woman who JUST got married to Colonel Foster who obviously has to move with his unit. Because Mrs. Foster and Lydia have been best friends for two of the three months that Mrs. Foster has been in town she asks Lydia to come with them to Brighton for a while. Lydia, who totally ignores Kitty, starts bouncing around the house and Mrs. B is too because she is just happy one of them gets to go. Kitty however gets upset because she is older than Lydia and she should have been the one who was asked to go. She literally just sits around whining all the time while Lydia is packing to go.
Meanwhile Lizzy is talking to her father to try to convince him to force Lydia to stay. Lizzy is rightfully worried that Lydia will further embarrass her family and do more damage to their reputation, which will in the end make it even harder for them to get married. In reality Lizzy is thinking about Darcy and how his prejudice against her family is probably warranted. Mr. B says that Lydia is going to find a way to embarrass herself in public anyway so she might as well do it as far away from the rest of the family as possible anyway. Lizzy predicts that Lydia will soon be "beyond the reach of amendment" and argues with a lot of passion that her father will not only lose Lydia but that this will directly effect Kitty who follows Lydia's lead on everything. Mr. B responds with "she cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising (it is spelled that way in the book because spelling was different back then) us to lock her up for the rest of her life."
Since Wickham is a soldier he has to leave with the unit as well. Lizzy starts to find it harder and harder to be polite and during their last shared meal she pretty much lets him know that she knows who he really is and when he tries to go back to complaining about Darcy she shuts him down and smiles. The whole conversation is full of very well hidden snark and disguised so that no one but Wickham, or someone who knows the truth, would be able to pull out the true meaning of her words. Honestly it is well written and makes me miss the classy way that people used to insult one another.
The chapter ends with Lydia leaving and she is all fussy and squealing, Kitty is crying because she doesn't get to go to the beach with the boys. Lydia is so noisy as she is leaving that she doesn't even hear her others sisters half-heartedly say goodbye.
Chapter 42
This chapter opens with a little insight into why Mr. B married Mrs. B. Pretty much the answer is that she was pretty and seemed very nice because she was pretty and he had fallen for it. However after a short period of being married he realized that she was actually stupid and foolish. Because of this and there being little else to amuse himself with he took to laughing at her folly and because of this the children paid. We get the sense that Lizzy is upset with her father. She has always endeavored to look past his short comings, but she blames him for Lydia's foolishness.
Liz finds that because her sister and mother are still whining about the soldiers being gone and because Lydia is no doubt embarrassing all of them to the best of her abilities she cannot celebrate the absence of Wickham the way she had originally hoped to. Because of this she resorts to dreaming about her upcoming vacation plans with her Aunt and Uncle. She soon learns that because of her uncle's work their vacation got a bit messed up and they will not be going to the Lakes but to a different part of the country because it is where her aunt used to live. The place they are going is Derbyshire more specifically Lambton, also known as the place that holds Pemberly which is the residence of Mr. Darcy and his sister.
Finally the weeks pass and Liz gets picked up by the Gardiners who leave their four children with Jane. They set out and they are no sooner there when Mrs. Gardiner mentions visiting Pemberly and Mr. Gardiner agrees it will be nice, and after Lizzy makes sure that Darcy is out of town she also agrees that she is curious to see the house that could have been her house. Now this whole visiting someones house while they aren't home thing seems weird to us ,or at least to me, so allow me to explain to the best of my ability.
Back in the day if you had a beautiful house you would fill it with nice furniture, pianos, and luxurious furnishings as a sort of shout out to your rank. Living to your means was seen as respectable and your house was a large showcase of your social class. Also people prided themselves on the land that they owned and would often, if they could afford it, make large walks and gardens much like what we saw when Lizzy was at Rosings. This being said it becomes more understandable why people were encouraged to show up at peoples homes unannounced when they weren't home because the servants could show off their masters wealth and taste. It is weird and I cannot imagine someone who sort of knows of me walking around my house ooohing and aaaahing at all of my things, but it was normal especially for middle and higher class people typically for lower classes to look at the wealth of the upper class and acknowledge that they were in fact inferior.
This brings us to the end of the second part of the book. Yes it leaves us knowing that Lizzy will soon be walking along the lanes of Pemberly. The book is approaching its climax, but don't worry everything is resolved in the last three chapters which annoys me thoroughly.
Thank you all for reading, all five of you it would seem. Also I would once again like to give a shout out to BlackDoveComics as they are good friends and are often quite funny.
I will not be posting anything tomorrow as I have plans to be occupied, I will be updating soon as this is like my most favorite part coming up because we get to rant a lot. Keep up with me on google+, follow me on this site, or on twitter @KauruRoss.
Sincerely Your Writer,
Ross
Chapter 40
Chapter forty is Elizabeth telling Jane about what happened with Darcy and his letter. Lizzy tells everything about the proposal and about her response. Jane is so sweet that though she acknowledges that Darcy should have been more careful with what he said and that he should not have been "so sure of succeeding," she also sees how much pain Lizzy's refusal must have caused him. Then Lizzy goes on to tell her about the Wickham part of the letter. Again Jane's soft side shows itself when she tries to find a way to justify both men's actions without making one of them out to be a bad guy. Lizzy argues that there is no way to do so and that Jane must simply pick one and agree with that particular story. Interestingly Lizzy has joined team Darcy so woot for her.
On a literary note we see that Elizabeth is continuing to grow as she twice points out her past folly and prejudice and shows signs of guilt. Lizzy is beginning to accept that she has judged people unfairly and willing agrees that her guilt is a consequence "of the prejudices [she] had been encouraging."
The girls decide not to tell anyone else about what they have learned about Wickham because it is one, not their business to start telling everyone about what happened between Wickham and Darcy and two, because there would be no way to convince the people of the town that Wickham was a bad man since so many already loved him and believed Darcy to be a pompous jerk-face. Lizzy comforts herself with the knowledge that Wickham will be leaving town soon and that eventually the truth of his nature would out itself and then the two girls could laugh at everyone for being so stupid. I might add that that is rich coming from Lizzy since Darcy could have very well laughed directly in her face had he not been so down right angry about her turning down his proposal of marriage at the time.
Lizzy resolves never to tell Jane of what happened between Darcy and Bingley until the day comes that Bingley has returned and has resolved the issue himself. She says "The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!" If only people did that all the time then there would be a lot less drama due to gossip. The main reason that Lizzy is not telling Jane about Darcy breaking them up is because she is protecting her. If Jane found out that the main reasons she lost Bingley was because she didn't show her affection enough and because her family is full of idiots it would only make her still very present depression worse.
The chapter ends with Mrs. B being an idiot again. She is talking to Lizzy about Jane and Bingley and after talking about how sad it all is says that her "comfort is, [she] is sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done." Yeah that's right. She hopes that Jane DIES of a broken hear so as to make Bingley feel bad... I feel the need to move on.
Anyway she also complains some more about the Collinses because they have a decent amount of money and they probably lay awake at night talking about how much they want Mr. B to die so that they can have his house because that is obviously what they do...
Chapter 41
This chapter starts off with a little humor. The soldier boys who have been stationed in town are moving to Brighton which is a beach apparently filled with nice vacation homes. All the unmarried girls in town are upset and dreary but Lydia and Kitty are insanely upset. The only people who don't seem to care are Lizzy and Jane who are going about their normal business and apparently laughing at Lydia and Kitty. Mrs. B is all dramatic about the soldier she had crushed on when she was a young girl and they try to convince Mr. B that they should all go to Brighton for vacation *cough* and to follow the hot uniforms *cough*. Mr. B says no obviously.
But then there is Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Foster is a young woman who JUST got married to Colonel Foster who obviously has to move with his unit. Because Mrs. Foster and Lydia have been best friends for two of the three months that Mrs. Foster has been in town she asks Lydia to come with them to Brighton for a while. Lydia, who totally ignores Kitty, starts bouncing around the house and Mrs. B is too because she is just happy one of them gets to go. Kitty however gets upset because she is older than Lydia and she should have been the one who was asked to go. She literally just sits around whining all the time while Lydia is packing to go.
Meanwhile Lizzy is talking to her father to try to convince him to force Lydia to stay. Lizzy is rightfully worried that Lydia will further embarrass her family and do more damage to their reputation, which will in the end make it even harder for them to get married. In reality Lizzy is thinking about Darcy and how his prejudice against her family is probably warranted. Mr. B says that Lydia is going to find a way to embarrass herself in public anyway so she might as well do it as far away from the rest of the family as possible anyway. Lizzy predicts that Lydia will soon be "beyond the reach of amendment" and argues with a lot of passion that her father will not only lose Lydia but that this will directly effect Kitty who follows Lydia's lead on everything. Mr. B responds with "she cannot grow many degrees worse, without authorising (it is spelled that way in the book because spelling was different back then) us to lock her up for the rest of her life."
Since Wickham is a soldier he has to leave with the unit as well. Lizzy starts to find it harder and harder to be polite and during their last shared meal she pretty much lets him know that she knows who he really is and when he tries to go back to complaining about Darcy she shuts him down and smiles. The whole conversation is full of very well hidden snark and disguised so that no one but Wickham, or someone who knows the truth, would be able to pull out the true meaning of her words. Honestly it is well written and makes me miss the classy way that people used to insult one another.
The chapter ends with Lydia leaving and she is all fussy and squealing, Kitty is crying because she doesn't get to go to the beach with the boys. Lydia is so noisy as she is leaving that she doesn't even hear her others sisters half-heartedly say goodbye.
Chapter 42
This chapter opens with a little insight into why Mr. B married Mrs. B. Pretty much the answer is that she was pretty and seemed very nice because she was pretty and he had fallen for it. However after a short period of being married he realized that she was actually stupid and foolish. Because of this and there being little else to amuse himself with he took to laughing at her folly and because of this the children paid. We get the sense that Lizzy is upset with her father. She has always endeavored to look past his short comings, but she blames him for Lydia's foolishness.
Liz finds that because her sister and mother are still whining about the soldiers being gone and because Lydia is no doubt embarrassing all of them to the best of her abilities she cannot celebrate the absence of Wickham the way she had originally hoped to. Because of this she resorts to dreaming about her upcoming vacation plans with her Aunt and Uncle. She soon learns that because of her uncle's work their vacation got a bit messed up and they will not be going to the Lakes but to a different part of the country because it is where her aunt used to live. The place they are going is Derbyshire more specifically Lambton, also known as the place that holds Pemberly which is the residence of Mr. Darcy and his sister.
Finally the weeks pass and Liz gets picked up by the Gardiners who leave their four children with Jane. They set out and they are no sooner there when Mrs. Gardiner mentions visiting Pemberly and Mr. Gardiner agrees it will be nice, and after Lizzy makes sure that Darcy is out of town she also agrees that she is curious to see the house that could have been her house. Now this whole visiting someones house while they aren't home thing seems weird to us ,or at least to me, so allow me to explain to the best of my ability.
Back in the day if you had a beautiful house you would fill it with nice furniture, pianos, and luxurious furnishings as a sort of shout out to your rank. Living to your means was seen as respectable and your house was a large showcase of your social class. Also people prided themselves on the land that they owned and would often, if they could afford it, make large walks and gardens much like what we saw when Lizzy was at Rosings. This being said it becomes more understandable why people were encouraged to show up at peoples homes unannounced when they weren't home because the servants could show off their masters wealth and taste. It is weird and I cannot imagine someone who sort of knows of me walking around my house ooohing and aaaahing at all of my things, but it was normal especially for middle and higher class people typically for lower classes to look at the wealth of the upper class and acknowledge that they were in fact inferior.
This brings us to the end of the second part of the book. Yes it leaves us knowing that Lizzy will soon be walking along the lanes of Pemberly. The book is approaching its climax, but don't worry everything is resolved in the last three chapters which annoys me thoroughly.
Thank you all for reading, all five of you it would seem. Also I would once again like to give a shout out to BlackDoveComics as they are good friends and are often quite funny.
I will not be posting anything tomorrow as I have plans to be occupied, I will be updating soon as this is like my most favorite part coming up because we get to rant a lot. Keep up with me on google+, follow me on this site, or on twitter @KauruRoss.
Sincerely Your Writer,
Ross
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