complicated marriage. The only negative in their relationship is that they are both so overly nice that Mrs. Bennet is worried that people are going to take advantage of them. We see that this worry did have some basis to it, because the Wickhams do in fact take advantage of the Bingleys by staying in their house for extremely long periods of time and constantly writing to them for money. However, despite this, Jane and Mr. Bingley are genuinely happy and completely in love with one another.The last and unquestionably the most complicated of all of the marriages inthis novel is the marriage of Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy. When they first meet at the dance in Meryton, neither one of them is attracted to the other. Elizabeth thinks that Mr. Darcy is an upper class snob, while Mr. Darcy views Elizabeth as, tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt. (12). In addition, Mr. Darcy will not even contemplate dancing with someone in a lower class. As time goes on, Elizabeth only begins to dislike Mr. Darcy even more after hearing the stories that Mr. Wickham has to tell about him, but Darcy slowly begins to fall in love with her despite her social status.When Darcy finally decides to swallow some of his upper class pride and propose to Elizabeth, he admits that he has tried very hard not to love her because of the inferiority of her family, and he says that it would be a degradation for him to marry her. Needless to say, Elizabeth gets very upset by his words and rejects his proposal. This is very shocking to Darcy, he never imagined that Elizabeth would say no to somebody of his rank and wealth. However, this shows us the strength of conviction that Elizabeth posesses, she absolutely refuses to marry for anything other than love and respect.Later on in the novel, after finding out the truth about Mr. Wickham, and speaking to Mr. Darcys servant at Pemberley, Elizabeth begins to realize that the picture that she had of Darcy had not been comp...
