Darcy and Elizabeth

Yes! I finally finished the book! The final chapters went by a bit slowly. The ending was slightly (if not, very) predictable, but it was enjoyable since it at least had some kind of a moral teaching (unlike modern-day chick flicks).

After all the problems between Lydia and Wickham, Darcy’s proposal towards Elizabeth seems unexpected and improbable among the characters. However, after the two marriages in a row (Lydia/Wickham and Bingley/Jane) and the general flow of the book, the reader can suspect the upcoming marriage.
This also coincides with the earlier foreshadowing, in which Elizabeth stated that Darcy’s house was “a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front, a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.” Maybe we, as readers, always knew, in a small part of the brain, how the book was going to end from an earlier portion of the book.

In the end, it wasn’t really about business as it was in the beginning. In the beginning, it was about the money, the wealth and the social class. However, it seemed that these things did not matter (as much) by the conclusion of the book. True love actually blossomed after all the events took place. Only after Dancy overcame his pride and Elizabeth her prejudice was the true love possible. In other words, the title of this book could as well have been ‘Dancy and Elizabeth’.