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Ten_Quilts_Deep t1_j7e3yrl wrote

Reply to comment by magvadis in Pride and Prejudice to me is the epitome of romance novels but I recently found something about Elizabeth that I disliked by nyanyaneko2

Compare Lizzy to Caroline Bingley. Lizzy can be seen as valuing herself. Caroline seems to only display her value in a narrow role capped by matrimony. I agree that Lizzy is not like other women we meet in the novel.

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damnableluck t1_j7h634i wrote

> Compare Lizzy to Caroline Bingley.

The entire quote that /u/nyanyaneko2 mentions is a thinly-veiled description of Caroline Bingley's behavior. Lizzy "pluralizes" the comment to make it less pointed and less mean. She's not intending to insult Caroline Bingley, rather to tease Darcy about all the attentions he received from her would be rival.

I don't think it's appropriate to think of it as truly a commentary on "other women" in general.

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Ten_Quilts_Deep t1_j7h7fny wrote

I agree that she does not intend to insult Caroline but rather how Austen, throughout the novel, paints Caroline and her cohorts as not being taught to think for themselves as Lizzy has. I would rather say she was not taught but by her parental neglect was allowed to read and think. I was not limiting myself to this one comment. Do you think that was /nyanyaneko2's intent?

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