Resumo de Pride And Prejudice

As Jane Austen opens this delightful novel, it is often aid that a single gentleman of good fortune who enter a district must be in want of a wife. The Bennets are a large family with five daughters. Though the girls are known to be uncommonly pretty, especially the elder two, because the Bennet estate is entailed away from the female line, they are also girls of little fortune and their marital prospects are limited because of this.
The eldest sisters, Jane and Elizabeth take after their mother for beauty and their father for sense. Unfortunately their mother is a very silly woman and the other daughters all follow suite and are frivolous and foolish which makes life a little hard at times for the sensible Jane and Elizabeth and their father who often retreats into his study to get away from his wife.
The novel opens with the entrance into town of a single man of fortune who decides to take a house in the district. Mrs. Bennet is thrilled by this as she has already decided that he will marry one of her daughters. A military regiment has also become stationed in the area and the girls are invited to many balls and dinner parties with the officers. Kitty and Lydia, the youngest and silliest of the sisters, think of nothing but officers and how to have as many conquests as possible. Jane and Eliza are looking for more serious attachments.
At the next ball the town are introduced to the new neighbors, Mr. Bingley, his two sisters, and his friend Mr. Darcy. Bingley is soon taken with Jane. A beautiful and sweet natured girl, Jane sees the good in everyone and she is an excellent match for the agreeable Bingley. Mr. Darcy, however, though possessing an enormous fortune, is not so easy to make friends with. Proud and not very sociable, he soon offends Elizabeth by not only refusing to dance with her, but telling Bingley that though she is tolerable, he is not in the humor to dance with ladies slighted by other men. Fuming at this comment, Eliza soon finds the humor in it and tells her good friend Charlotte Lucas of what had occurred.
However, soon afterwards, Darcy begins to change his mind about Elizabeth. Intelligent, lively and spirited, she soon begins to attract the proud Mr. Darcy, against his better judgment. As Bingley and Jane get to know each other more, Darcy becomes more and more bewitched by Elizabeth.
Soon, though he convinces Bingley to go away to London and not get attached to the impecunious Jane, Darcy decides he can't live without Elizabeth and asks for her hand in marriage. At this point, after finding out about Darcy's actions which caused the unhappiness of her sister, Elizabeth refuses point blank. She is appalled by his rudeness and how proud and insolent he appears.
Nevertheless, in the end Elizabeth begins to see Darcy's true character. She is vanquished of her prejudece and he becomes less proud. Jane and Bingley are reunited and the couples become as happy as they could ever be.

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