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• W859134582 abstract "Sometimes I feel that I can personally attest to the timelessness of Pride and Prejudice: I have been reading the novel for about fifty years--a quarter of its existence. At various stages of my life, like many readers, I have recognized in the text genuine parallels with the dilemmas of real life. However much my perceptions have changed over time, though, there remains an important constant: the unfailing integrity of the principal characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. They are not always right in their readings of their world, but they never set out to deceive, which is for most other characters an inescapable feature of courtship culture. (1) My focus on that culture has changed over time, but Elizabeth and Darcy remain true to themselves. Elizabeth's doomed friendship with Charlotte Lucas fails in part over their disagreement about what I call, in imitation of Darcy himself, performance (197). As a girl, I focused on the relationship between these friends: to have a like-minded friend is a joy--and, if one is a wallflower, especially welcome. Every teenaged girl can imagine herself Elizabeth or Charlotte at a dance, stuck without partners, entertaining each other with satirical remarks. An extended example of such conversation gives a sense of their long-term companionship, Charlotte's talk that 'make[s]' Elizabeth 'laugh' (25). Charlotte is advising Lizzy that Jane 'secure' Bingley by 'shew[ing]] more affection than she feels' (24). Charlotte has interpreted Jane's composure of temper and ... cheerfulness of manner as dangerously 'conceal[ing] her affection' (23). Of course, Jane has adopted no policy whatever in displaying a uniform cheerfulness: as Elizabeth says, Jane 'is not acting by design' (24). Charlotte may be unable to imagine that a woman in this society can ever act without design: rather, she suggests that Jane replace one kind of policy with another. This conversation continues to Charlotte's famous statement 'Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance' and to Elizabeth's playful rejoinder, 'You make me laugh, Charlotte; but it is not sound. You know it is not sound, and that you would never act in this way yourself' (25). As between all best friends, there is a presumption (on at least one side) that there is complete agreement on everything that matters: each girl laughs at the same sorts of jokes because both girls see the world in the same way, and they assume that this parallel will hold fast throughout their lives (in the twentieth century, this assumption meant, for example, that I believed my friend and I would grow up supporting the same political candidates--perhaps we have all cherished parallel expectations and perhaps been disillusioned). But, in this conversation at least, Elizabeth has the last word, in complete confidence that it is a true one: no friend of hers would ever act as Charlotte describes: Charlotte has been jokingly performing in the sort of social mockery these girls always enjoy. How readily then can the reader share Elizabeth's dismay at Charlotte's agreeing to marry Mr. Collins. (2) Of course, there are abundant ways to understand Charlotte's pragmatism. In her Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, Patricia Meyer Spacks reviews Austen's commentary on the spinster problem in her other novels and in her letters, alongside Frances Burney's treatment of the subject in The Wanderer (162-63). But even though my twelve-year-old self had some sense of the bleak prospects for dowerless twenty-seven-year-old women, I sympathized deeply with Elizabeth's sense of betrayal: Elizabeth discovers that she has mistaken [the] character (285), to use a phrase from later in the text, not of some new acquaintance (like Wickham), but of her long-time, best friend. Not only has Charlotte sacrificed every better feeling to worldly advantage (141), but she has in fact performed shamelessly--she has 'act[ed] by design. …" @default.
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• W859134582 title "Raptures and Rationality: Fifty Years of Reading Pride and Prejudice" @default.
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