Pride and Prejudice 5

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
80 of 262 pages
Classic Novel

Quote from the book: “It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.” This is something Elizabeth thinks when Mr. Collins goes on and on how Lady Catherine de Bourgh told him to marry a nice woman soon, and how she would be a good wife for him. Elizabeth is not very fond of Mr. Collins, so this conversation made her very uncomfortable, and afterwards the topic is talked about a lot.

What happened until now: Mr. Collins, who is a sort of distant cousin of Elizabeth and her sisters, wants to marry Elizabeth and proposes to her. She refuses to marry him though, because she doesn't really like him, and I think at that point she might start falling for Mr. Wickham (although I know she won’t marry him either). Mrs. Bennet is shocked with her child’s behavior and told her that if she wouldn't accept his proposal, she doesn't want to see her any longer. Elizabeth’s dad, Mr. Bingley, on the other side, doesn't want her to marry him, or at least is glad that she refused to. This causes tumult in the Bennet family, and Mrs. Bennet is very upset with Elizabeth, although she herself doesn't regret her own decision at all for she is sure that she will find someone suited better for her than Mr. Collins.      
Also, Jane gets a letter from Caroline, Mr. Bingley’s sister, saying that they are all leaving to London, and are not planning on coming back until after the winter. She also indicates that her brother admires Mr. Darcy’s sister, who also lives in London, and that she thinks they might get married. She writes that Jane perhaps should not get her hopes up, because Mr. Bingley might not come back at all. Jane is disappointed, although not giving up her hopes, since Elizabeth convinces her that that is what Caroline wants, since she likes Mr. Darcy and thinks that if there is one marriage between the two families, it will be easier to have a second one, and it is not what Mr. Bingley thinks.

The longer I read this book, the more boring it becomes for me. This is the very first time that I had to force myself to read a book, although I actually liked it at the beginning, but there is just no real action, and the way the author describes everything makes it even less interesting. My mum agrees with me, she doesn't really like the book too much either.

Blog Question #5: The author writes in a very old fashioned, proper and sophisticated way, especially during conversations between the characters. Something else my mum and I noticed was that the dialogues between the characters are very long, like short essays for themselves, and there is also a lot of dialogue going on in the novel. My mum has a hard time reading the novel, because of the old fashion style, and she has to look up a lot of words in the dictionary, and there are also some words I don’t understand either. Of course it’s always a bit uncomfortable to have a lot of words that you don’t know the meaning of, because it slows you down and makes it harder to understand, but also, that way we both learn new vocabulary words.