letely accurate. She actually starts to admire him very much for his impeccable manners and intellect, and she notices for the first time that he really is a good person. This feeling is only intensified when she finds out that Darcy was instrumental in working out the situation of Lydia and Mr. Wickham. Elizabethrealizes how much he really must love her if he was willing to bribe the person he most hated in order to defend the honor of her lower class family. The second time that Darcy proposes he does so much more humbly and is very careful not to insult Elizabeth or her relatives, and this time Elizabeth finally accepts the proposal.I think that in Austens opinion, the marriage of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is the best marriage. They have achieved the perfect balance between emotion and intellectualism. They both admire each others minds, rather than merely superficial, physical beauty. They did not marry out of convenience, rather it was because the really, truly love and respect each other. In addition, their engagement and love was not as simplistic and uncomplicated as Jane and Bingleys, rather they had to work for it. As Elizabeth says to her father, that her love for Mr. Darcy was, not the work of a day, but had stood the test of many months suspense. (314) While Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have a lot of similarities, they also have many, many differences so they had to work much harder to achieve their relatioship, but once they achieved it, it was the greatest relationship possible....
