Darcy: From Conceded to Kind

In the first half of the novel, the reader is lead to believe that Mr. Darcy was conceited and proud. During the Meryton assembly, Darcy refuses to dance with any of the ladies present. Mrs. Bennet describes Darcy as being as "a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!" (14).

Later on in the novel, Darcy proposes to Elizabeth. She

Elizabeth cited Mr. Wickham’s dispute with Darcy as a major reason for not wanting to marry Darcy. Darcy writes Elizabeth a letter detailing the true nature of his past with Wickham. Elizabeth sees that Darcy is not such a conceded man after all and that perhaps she was in the wrong when she refused his marriage proposal and insulted him. She reaches Pemberly shortly after having read Darcy's letter with the understanding that Darcy was not to arrive at his estate until the next day. Two things happen when she reaches Pemberly: she falls in love with the estate and Darcy arrives a day early.

Elizabeth’s arrival at Pemberly is a pivotal and climactic point in the novel. If she had not visited Pemberly and if Darcy had not came back a day early, the two surely would have missed one another, not

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