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I think Elizabeth is growing on me simply because these two old ladies are being so mean about her WALKING to see her sick sister!!! “Conceited independence,” holy shit go jump in a lake, aunties.

Oh they’re his sisters! Lmao

Bingley’s I mean. I guess he’s trying to be very chill at every turn, which I guess is an admirable trait, I think.

“Nice girl. Too bad about her being A Poor, how embarrassing.” People are still like this!!!

Okay so Jane Austen is making me retroactively like a bunch of these characters I originally found annoying by simply surrounding them with actual demons. Well done.

I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”

To be clear, I love both these ways of moving across a story.

I’ve barely touched on Jane and Bingley because they’re just two hot people who straightforwardly like each other, and I’m sure these crazy kids will be fine. It turns out, though, that firmly believe that Mrs Bennet should have a gun.

Ah so Bingley and Darcy have sort of a red oni/blue oni dynamic going on

Oh I fully blew past Mrs Bennet conspiring to get her daughter a touch of the cold to stay at Netherfield with Bingley lmao what a lady. No ruth at all.

Oh no Elizabeth got worried for her sick sister and called her mother who brought basically the rest of the family. Oh no. Oh nooooo.

MOMMM oh my GOD you’re EMBARRASSING ME.

And I still think Mrs Bennet should have a gun.

I wonder what the conversation was like at home when Mrs Bennet got Elizabeth’s note about sick Jane. Mrs B: Jane is unwell! We must go to her! Mr B: Yes, certainly. Mrs B: And I’m bringing all the girls. Mr B: Oh, this is a You project.

My eyes just glaze over every mention of Mr Hurst. Is he important? I just don’t think my brain is meant to comprehend him.

I also think Charlotte should have a gun.

I’m at the part where they’re taking a walk in the woods, and I think Darcy and Elizabeth are flirting, and also Caroline is there doing that thing where she’s trying to charm Darcy by making herself sound a little unworldly and thereby super impressed by him, and it is awkward.

Elizabeth leaves the conversation because someone else joins them, and “the path is too small for all of us,” and I’m having trouble picturing that kind of path. But it occurs to me she’s just grabbing a perfunctory nonsense excuse to leave a social situation, which just makes me root for her.

*someone rude joins the chat* Elizabeth: WELL, I have to go suddenly because uh the sun is at a weird angle that makes our shadows a size that displeases me, so see you later, nice chatting, good-bye. I love her.

I went from “Wow Elizabeth Bennet kinda feels like a manic pick-me dream girl” to “I will take a blunt object to anybody’s car lights if they say a bad word about Liz.” Jane Austen. Is so good.

I feel a lot of characters based on her are missing siblings, a big part of why I love Jane Austen novels is the family relationships and how it shapes everyone (I think this aspect is well adapted in 2005 P&P and Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility)

By the beginning of the 12th chapter, Darcy has decided that Elizabeth has stayed too long because he has developed a crush, and he’s noticed that Caroline has been flirtier, so he has feelings that are too big in all directions, and it has to stop. Deeply relatable. I’ve turned around on him too!??

I love this for you. I recently started Jane Eyre (first time) and am finding Rochester hilarious. He's grumpy and disinterested (except when drunk then he can't shut up) and he went full obsession over some opera singer in his youth. I kind of love him.

Trung is adding to the thread, my show is on

Ah, we’ve met Mr Collins, and he appears to be some sort of, like… fuddy duddy pickup artist type? He talks about women kinda like they’re other people’s pets. It’s weird.

Mr. Collins is a freak

We’re also spending time with a soldier called Wickham, who is described as a hot man with ample charisma. It almost seems mean to have him share chapter space with Collins, which suggests I’m gonna eventually dislike Wickham even more than Collins, if the pattern of this book continues.

ohmygosh I've been waiting for this part