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Johnathan Johnson _ucalstudios — I got a really old edition from the library. It was kind of awesome because the price at the time was 50 cents and that just happened to be exactly what the library was charging for (most) paperbacks. Also, it looks old-tastic. It's a "scholastic library edition," and since there are like eighty billion editions of Pride and Prejudice on this site I just went with an edition with a vaguely reminiscent cover. This isn't really a review, because I haven't even started the book yet. But I sure did buy it. I wish people still indulged this kind of witty dialogue. It never ceases to be amusing. When I read Goffman (a social analyst) my sophomore year in college, I related his discussion of "face" to the way that Lizzy gets embarrassed by her family in Pride and Prejudice. They reflect poorly on her by their rude and unrestrained behavior, which embarrasses her and greatly influences her interactions with Mr. Darcy because her family is detracting from her ability to preserve positive face. Also, re-reading it for a course on British Women Writers Before 1900 brought up how unrealistic the romance really is (a perfect, wealthy man marrying down, not even to the most beautiful of the Bennet sisters). And how it re-enforces bourgeoisie ideals of class (with the attitude of class-climbing being a crude aspiration nevertheless possible, even right, given the nurturing of one's innate high-born tendencies). And I was preoccupied by the idea of how sympathy for Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth is tied to their status as readers. And the way that there's a sort of satire of the pragmatic, stabilizing reality of marriage (which Mrs. Bennet is crude for acknowledging, yet the book kind of vindicates her perspective by having everything work out pretty nicely through marriages. Even against Elizabeth's seemingly romantic and obstinate personality.) Mr. Darcy muses early on, “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.” Darcy scorns the habit, but the novel itself vindicates this imaginative leap—he does indeed marry the Miss Elizabeth Bennet whose eyes he is admiring. And the silly Mrs. Bennet who wants a daughter to marry the rich new inhabitant of Netherfield at the novel’s commencement, ultimately gets her wish. Reading, I feel like a friend of Austen’s. I get to share her perspective as an amused outsider to the ironies of Pride and Prejudice. And I know she loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. My edition's introduction points out that she was Austen's favorite character. I really really like Lizzie while I'm reading her, but upon analyzing the text and trying to think about what makes her likeable, I admit that my fondness fades. She's so impractical and silly and prejudiced. And bitter toward Mr. Darcy. And emotionally out-of-touch. And yet...endearingly so because she's so witty? Or because being out of touch with your emotions is an understandable fault? Or because her banter and romance with Mr. Darcy is so satisfying? I don't know, really. P.S. Sorry that this review is too long. P.P.S. Page 245 (in my edition...) is interesting in relation to the Bennets' marriage (being kind of pathetic and unfulfilling). And pages 49 and 59 have revealing Darcy/Elizabeth moments. That is all. I promise.