Pride and Prejudice {blog 4}

     Finishing the book Pride and Prejudice is something that I can say I am really glad I have accomplished. I did not hate the book but I did not love it either. To me, it seemed like the ending was just thrown together in order to finfish the book as fast as possible. The major problems of the book never went into much detail on how they were resolved and even then the way they were overcome, they seemed to all take the easy road out.
     It was obvious that eventually Elizabeth and Darcy/ Jane and Mr. Bingley would get married. Maybe that was the reason that I did not like the book, because it was in the end just a typical love story; the characters had to overcome some obstacles in order to truly be happy. Anyways, when Elizabeth changes her mind about Darcy it is very interesting because she goes at first from hating the man to not being able to live without him. Darcy wants to be her husband very badly but leaves it up to her decision, “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.” (pg. 420) It is a good thing that Elizabeth this time said yes because I think a different answer might have literally killed Mr. Darcy.
     Mrs. Bennet brags about how her daughters have married themselves into the best lives possible. Her husband still doesn’t really enjoy her but he has to live with her, “ I wish I could say, for the sake of her family, that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an effect as to make her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman for the rest of her life; though perhaps it was lucky for her husband, who might not have relished domestic felicity in so unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous and invariably silly.” (pg. 432) All I can really say about the mother is that at the end of the day all she really strived for was the happiness of her family but her ways of reaching that were always annoying and made her seem too high strung. Jane Austen set the mother and the daughters so far apart from each other in the novel, personality wise, that that is why the book may be interesting to some.
     At the end of the novel, no one really changed their social class or the way they looked at social class other than Mr. Darcy. His love surpassed the feeling he had of marrying a woman beneath him so I give him a pat on the back for that one. The character least changed in this way I believe to be Lady Catherine. She is a wretched woman who doesn’t approve of anything it seems and I will leave it at that.
     To conclude, Pride and Prejudice was yet again just another typical love story with a typical ending. Jane Austen brought the characters together despite the massive differences they shared and with that I applaud her. But I still must say that overall I did not enjoy the book, maybe I will have better luck with Frankenstein…