(3) Sisters Bingley:
Although Household Bingley is rich, they make their fortune by the flourish industry of North England, which is just similar with Sisters Bennett’s uncle who is often sneered at by them of making a live of doing business. The two sisters remain themselves with the upper society, their characteristics of pride make them unwilling to be close to Sisters Bennett, who belong to middle class. Although both of them like the beautiful and kind Jane, they still often sneer at her relatives in private. For example:
“I think I have heard you say that their uncle is an attorney in Meryton.”
“Ye, and they have another, who lives somewhere near Cheapside.”
“That is Capital,” added her sister,and they laughed heartily.
Here, Miss Bingley particularly stresses that Cheapside is near London, and this is very familiar to the hearer. We can see that although the sisters Bingley belong to upper class, they are both dissemblers. They treat Jane like their sister seemingly, but sneer at her relatives in private. Meanwhile, in the above dialogue, their satiric words seem to entertain themselves seemingly, nevertheless, as a matter of fact, the intended hearer is Mr. Darcy beside.
Miss Bingley, who has a very strong sense of envy, is eager to please Mr. Darcy and wish to marry him. But after the party on which Mr. Darcy admires the beautiful eyes of Elizabeth and show out a little favor for her, sensitive Miss Bingley begins to sneer at 辣-文^论,文.网http://www.751com.cn the possible marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth now and then. The intended hearer is Darcy seemingly, but Elizabeth, her rival is the final casualty. For example:
“I hope,” said she, as they were walking together in the shrubbery the next day, “you will give your mother-in-law a few hints…bordering on conceit and impertinence,which your lady possesses.”
Here, Miss Bingley seemingly to remind Darcy kindly, but in fact, neither Darcy nor the readers can feel little warm hearted or sincere. Here, Darcy doesn’t keep silent, but reply her with threatening tone, trying interrupting that topic. It represents not only that distance of social status between them is close, but also that feeling of Darcy to Miss Bingley is negative, he seldom care about her face.
(4) Elizabeth:
When Miss Bingley and Mr. Darcy are discussing about qualities that an excellent lady need to own, Elizabeth can’t help sneering at Mr. Darcy’s words:
“I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”
The ironic words here represent Elizabeth’s discontent to Darcy’s slashing standard toward ladies. Although Darcy’s evaluation doesn’t threaten anyone, it bears with obvious prejudice. Therefore, he is satirized by Elizabeth. This represent indirectly that Elizabeth is not afraid of the so-called authority and dares to fight.
Nevertheless, with more contact and deeper understanding, Darcy gets more and more infatuated with Elizabeth’s behaviors and grace. He even invites Elizabeth to dance initiatively on the party. According to the current custom, dancing partners should have conversation more or less, but Darcy keeps silent all the time. Therefore, Elizabeth plays a trick on him on purpose:
“It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room or the number of couples.
By saying these, she actually means that since you are not fond of talking, you are made to talk about some boring things in order to punish you. At that time, prejudice of Elizabeth to Darcy has got deeper because that Elizabeth has been misled by Wickham.
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