Pride & Prejudice Notes: 37 – 42
Ch. 37
Darcy and Fitz leave Kent
E reflects on the truth of Darcy’s statements and the indescretion of her family, even of her father
“Her father, contented with laughing at them, would never exert himself to restrain the wild giddiness of his youngest daughters.” 144
Ch. 38
Eliza and Maria leave Kent and Rosings and return to London
Ch. 39
Lydia and Kitty meet Jane and Eliza with the coach and “treat” them to lunch, but they have to borrow the money because they’ve spent it all on ugly bonnets
Ch. 40
E. finally gets a chance to tell Jane all that happened in Kent
“Poor Wickham; there is such an expression of goodness in his countenance! Such openness and gentleness in his manner” even Jane was deceived 152
“There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.” E
“I never thought Mr. Darcy so deficient in the appearance of it as you used to do.” J 152
Mrs. Bennet complains about Charlotte again
Ch. 41
Lydia harps on the officers leaving
Mr. Bennet teases E about losing lovers because of her unrestrained younger sisters—too close to the truth! “Already arisen. . . What has she frightened way some of your lovers? Poor little Lizzy. But do not be cast down. Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected to a little absurdity are not worth a regret.”
“Lydia will never be easy till she has exposed herself in some public place or other, and we can never expect her to do it with so little expense or inconvenience to her family as under the present circumstances.” True but what’s wrong with this view?
“we shall have no peace at Longbourn if Lydia does not go to Brighton. Let her go then. Colonel Forster is a sensible man, and will keep her out of any real mischief; and she is luckily too poor to be an object of prey to any body.” 156
Wickham tries to warm up to E again, she rebuffs him 158
“Yes, very different. But I think Mr. Darcy improves on acquaintance. . . . In essentials, I believe, he is very much what he ever was.” irony
ch. 42
“Her father captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humor . . . had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind, had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.” So he likes the country and reads and laughs at his neighbors and family 159
160 “Elizabeth had never been blind to the impropriety of her father’s behavior as a husband.” What is his impropriety? What has he done wrong as a father?
A boring month passes and then finally, E goes off with the Gardiners on a vacation turing the north of England and stopping in Lambton where Mrs. Gardiner grew up. They decide to visit Pemberly, which E cannot get out of
Explain the visiting of great houses concept