Person
Elizabeth Bennet
Also known as Elizabeth, Lizzy, Eliza.
The second of the five Bennet daughters and her father's favourite, quick, ironic, and clear-eyed. She has fine dark eyes and a lively, playful turn of mind, and she values her own judgement of people above the opinion of the neighbourhood. Where her mother sees suitors, Elizabeth sees character, and she is rarely shy of laughing at folly, her own family's included.
Chapter III
At the Meryton assembly she overhears Mr. Darcy call her only tolerable, and not handsome enough to tempt him. She tells the story as a joke against him, and a first, settled dislike takes root.
Chapter XIX
She refuses Mr. Collins, unmoved by her mother's outrage. She will not marry where she cannot respect.
Chapter XXXIV
She refuses Mr. Darcy's first proposal at Hunsford, and tells him plainly why: his pride, his hand in parting Jane from Mr. Bingley, and his treatment of Wickham.
Chapter XXXVI
His letter overturns what she thought she knew of Wickham, and she sees how far her own vanity had misled her. 'Till this moment I never knew myself.'
Chapter XLIII
Seeing Pemberley and hearing the love his servants bear him, she begins to understand the man she refused.
Chapter LVIII
She accepts his second proposal, her feelings now as warm as they were once cold.
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