Chapters 36-37

So it is again time to express my apologies for my lack of updating the blog for the few people who actually read it. Finals week ran into traveling home which ran into my attendance at the Steam Punk World's Fair which lead into my attending a wedding and my escapades at the barn to rehabilitate my horse. Mixed into all of this was my desire to relax and the several trips to the movie theaters to see movies such as "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Fast and Furious Six", which left me crying all over again anyone who has seen it will understand why. So forgive me for being "unsymetrical garbage" once again and I promise to try harder. I would also like to take this time to inform people that as of August I will be moving my blog to Tumbler with the help of our beloved Fox because of her damnation of the Blogger coding processes. "Don't Panic" there will be a link here sending you there when it is updated allowing for quick access for noobs.
Now on with the book.

When I left you we had just finished reading the heartbreaking letter from Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth. Chapter 36 is Lizzy's response to the letter which is extremely bi-polar. First she admits that she expected it to be another marriage proposal which almost seems to prove Mr. Collins' logic right. Then she tries to convince herself that the whole thing was a huge falsehood that was not to be trusted. She goes as far as to say she will not read it ever again and within half a minute has the letter back in her hand again. She rereads the part about Wickham over and over. She relives her experiences with him and starts to notice things she had overlooked before. She realizes that he claimed that he had no fear of being around Darcy and that Darcy would leave before he did and yet he was the one who didn't show up at the ball. Then she remembers how he had said that out of memory of dead Mr. Darcy he would never out young Mr. Darcy as the jerk he claimed him to be and then once Darcy left town the whole town was made aware of his sob story. And in the midst of all of this she learns something far more important than Wickham's true character.

Elizabeth has her revelation moment in this chapter. She comes face to face with her own prejudice and how blinding it has been. She had once prided herself on being a good and fair judge of character and now she sees that she was really just judging people off of how well mannered they were in public. Without knowing anything about Wickham she had assumed him to be a good man because off his ability to be charming and sociable while at the same time she had assumed Darcy to be virtue-less because of his bad humor in public and his built in understanding of social barriers.

"Till this moment, I never knew myself" (page 205 in my book) This line is Lizzy finally coming to terms with her faults and is the beginning her shift into a more aware and less prejudiced person.

Because Miss Austen is actually a skilled writer (I do have some qualms about how she does certain things which we will discuss when we finally finish the book) she thought this through enough that like Darcy's letter is Lizzy's changing point, Lizzy turning Darcy down was necessary for Darcy to come face to face with his own faults which we see much later.

When she has finally finished rereading the section about Wickham she goes back and with clearer eyes rereads the section about Jane. She can finally admit that perhaps Darcy wasn't lying and that Jane probably could have expressed her feelings for Bingley more openly than she did in public. She also must concede that her family tends to be ridiculous at parties and that they embarrass all of the family by flirting with officers and singing badly at parties and all the other things they do to make it not worth marrying into the family. She begins to feel the hopelessness that Darcy has forced her to see and in some aspects begins to regret at the very least not being able to see what her family was before then.

Chapter 37

The Fitzwilliam boys leave and Lizzy is spared having to see them before they leave even though she has long forgotten the Colonel because she is forever thinking of Darcy's letter. When she has to sit through Lady Catherine again she amuses herself with thoughts of what she would have said and done after having received the news of Lizzy being her new niece.

Meanwhile Lady Catherine is completely lost in lala-land because she thinks that Darcy was grumpy and sad because he had to leave Rosings and her because he is so very fond of his lovely aunt. In reality of course he was moping because he just got "upbraided" (Lizzy's words) by a girl far under his own class who had also just turned down his marriage proposal. In respect to Darcy he had also just had to relive his unhappy past with Wickham which couldn't have been a pleasant stroll down memory lane.

After she is done talking about her lovely nephews she starts talking about how Lizzy should stay another week and Lizzy is all "Heck no I'm going home" actually she says her dad has requested that she come home and Lady Jerk-Face is all "daughters are never of so much consequence to a father" JERK. Anyway she then spends the rest of the day half asking half telling them about their trip home. She says that they should get a servant to go home with them because they are two girls who will be traveling Post. Traveling post meant that essentially that they were riding in the same carriage as the mail. Lady Catherine says that young women should always be accompanied "according to their situation in life." Funny enough the two common girls (Lizzy and Maria) only rank one servant where as her daughter alone gets two. Lizzy listens and responds in order to stop herself from drifting into her thoughts and forgetting where she was.

At the end of the chapter Lizzy begins to have fond feelings toward Darcy but tells herself that she hopes to never see him again. She fails to see a future when her past actions were so horrible and her family is so embarrassing. She falls again into hopelessness at the thought of her family and her two younger sisters who are typically the cause of her families pain. She becomes unbelievably depressed at the thought of how much Jane lost by loosing Bingley's affections because of her family. Before heading out they are so much annoyed by Lady Catherine's nagging about how to pack that little Maria is so worried about her luggage that she goes home and completely repacks her trunk.

So that is that. I finally got the next two chapters up and hopefully I wont ever wait this long again. Thank you all of my Minions and may you all have a blessed day full of fun and relaxation. Follow me on Twitter @KauruRoss for updates since that is almost all I use it for, I will never understand the tweetering process as an actual means of communication.
Also I will be adding a new link to my brother and his friend's blog which is a comic blog they are funny, especially if you are a gamer.
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Ross

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