Books As I See Them

Okay now the next thing is that we are only covering two chapters because we are starting to get to where things get seriously confusing if you start to go through them too fast and because I refuse to do chapter 18 in the same blog that I talk about Mr. Wickham because honestly I love chapter 18 and I am the one writing the blog. In fact I may do a whole post on just chapter 18 because we get to fan girl all over Mr. Darcy. 

Anyway on to chapter 16.

Alright so all five sisters plus Mr. Collins (shiver) go to Mrs. Philips house (I think she is either a family friend or an aunt of theirs) Mrs. Philips is throwing a party and a bunch of the officers are there including the agreeable and charming Mr. Wickham.  Lizzy starts talking to him and she wants to find out about why Darcy was glaring at him so they pick up a conversation. Wickham several times says things like "Oh I can't really say anything about Darcy." and then he continues to say something bad about him and Lizzy is just soaking all of this in and saying oh poor Mr. Wickham.  

So mainly the story from Wickham's perspective is that he was dear friends with the Late Mr. Darcy who we shall just call Dead Darcy for the sake of my sanity. So Wick and Dead Darcy are like mentor and troubled soul and Dead Darcy promises Wick that there will be money left for him when he dies to take care of him and make sure that Wick will be taken care of. Wick claims that Living Darcy ignored this last wish of Dead Darcy and refused to give Wick the money. Wick also says that Living Darcy got away with doing this because there was some sort of loop hole in the Dead Darcy's will. 

We must also take into account that during this whole conversation Wick is pretty much dissing Darcy and trying to make it sound like complements. Again this is something that normal readers (including me) don't see at first. So for now just take what Wick is saying as true because that is how Lizzy takes it. In fact Lizzy trusts everything he says for one reason, prejudice. Wickham is nice, he speaks well, he makes  people like him; Darcy is distant, snobbish, and prideful. Everyone immediately likes Wickham and hates Darcy because of their outward appearances and personalities. 

Though Lizzy wont admit it she is smitten and leaves the party with "her head full of him." 

Okay you should all know what this ugly color means. Oh yes Mr. Collins is in and throughout this chapter continuously talking about the woman who practically owns his soul now and how he sees the money he looses at the card table as a mere trifle. Every time this man speaks it makes me want to kick poor defenseless sheep off the side of a mountain. He will use complementing other people as a way to bring up Lady C and then everyone ends up saying thank you even though they weren't really complemented by the time this guy stops talking. But then we get to chapter 17. 

In Chapter 17 we sort of feel bad for Lizzy and you find yourself feeling her dread. All the girls are talking about the Netherfield Ball that is coming up soon. They are all very excited because they end up stuck in the house for like two weeks because of the rain. So Mr. Collins starts talking about how the first two dances he wants to dance with Lizzy. Now the first two dances of a ball are very important to your social standing. From what I can understand from reading this book it seems that your first two dances show your preference toward a certain person and is only trumped by how many other dances you have with someone. Lizzy starts freaking out in her head for two reasons. One she is really hoping that Wick will be there to dance the first two dances with her (even though this is a Bingley party and Mr. Darcy will be there) and two because she is starting to pick up the oh so very subtle hints that Collins is dropping. She is starting to realize that he is getting dangerously close to proposing and she is scared to death because she hates him as much as we do. 

So that is pretty much everything from chapters 16 & 17. I will have 18 up soon because I love that chapter. Thanks for reading and please make sure that if you enjoyed it you become a minion and keep reading. You can also get updates from my Tweeter account @KauruRoss . Thanks for reading and come back soon ^_^

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