tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post8180879169396188973..comments2024-01-29T03:20:32.291-05:00Comments on ...... SHARP ELVES SOCIETY ...... Jane Austen's Shadow Stories: Why Elizabeth takes an eager interest in Wickham's concerns even after he has just deserted her for Miss KingArnie Perlsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-80521315353287522902020-03-10T10:54:47.796-04:002020-03-10T10:54:47.796-04:00.
Here's additional evidence of your claim fr....<br /><br />Here's additional evidence of your claim from chapter 39, Lizzy'z reaction to Lydia's unkind words re Miss King:<br /><br />"Elizabeth was shocked to think that, however incapable of such coarseness of expression herself, the coarseness of the sentiment was little other than her own breast had harboured and fancied liberal!"Th.http://twitter.com/thmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-53248071487560671392015-06-29T12:47:35.951-04:002015-06-29T12:47:35.951-04:00Thank you for your reply, Sylwia, but as you might...Thank you for your reply, Sylwia, but as you might guess, I don't agree with you-- or, to be more precise, I believe that your interpretation (which is a variant on the second of the theories I at first entertained) is plausible, but mine is more plausible. And if you read the reply I received this morning from Diane Reynolds, which I reproduced at the end of my post, you'll see a great deal more textual evidence to support the view that Lizzy never quite gets over Wickham.Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1436417288060370638.post-44228195210564369322015-06-29T07:10:09.192-04:002015-06-29T07:10:09.192-04:00I don't think Lizzy was in love with Wickham. ...I don't think Lizzy was in love with Wickham. She got over him far too soon. <br /><br />In my opinion Lizzy used Wickham as a valid reason to dislike Darcy. As she admitted herself, her ill opinion of Darcy was formed very quickly, long before she even met Wickham. But her dislike wasn't reasonable - it was self-centered at best. She liked to say that everyone in Meryton disliked Darcy, but we really know only about her and her mother, and her father perhaps. Her closest friends: Jane, Charlotte Lucas, Sir Lucas - all liked him. Only when Lizzy met Wickham her dislike got some solid foundation, which she wasn't going to abandon even after Wickham abandoned her. This is also why she was so eager to defend Wickham (even though she was very harsh on Miss Lucas in similar circumstances).<br /><br />It's all about perception. Her opinion was formed and construed from many small pieces. If she allowed for one of the pieces to come off, the entire picture would be ruined. Which happens eventually after she reads Darcy's letter. Once she allows for the truth and lets go of her former image of him, her new perception of Darcy is formed rather quickly.<br /><br />Ironically, it's much easier for Lizzy to forgive Darcy for ruining her sister's engagement to Bingley (which he was really guilty of) than to admit that Wickham was a cad and Darcy a victim. That's because in the first case she was right, and in the latter she was wrong. <br /><br />Lizzy prides herself in her ability to judge people. She judged the two men at the very beginning, so she wasn't eager to admit she was wrong. It is, first of all, her own image of her self that she was defending.Sylwiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421574536682022492noreply@blogger.com