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Originally Posted by anamardoll
OK, fair enough, if the choice is between living with Darcy and living with her mother, then MAYBE Darcy is better. (Except, you know, that a key member of Darcy's family hates her.) But I still think Lizzy could have taken a third option. Somehow. There HAS to be something better on offer than being a Bennett or being a Darcy.  |
I dunno. Realistically speaking, was another eligible young man of independent means who was willing to overlook Lizzy's family issues going to show up in their neighborhood? Perhaps, just perhaps, Lizzy could have spent a lot of time with her aunt and with Jane and met someone that way, but I think it was a longshot and becoming increasingly longer as time passed. Eventually she might have come to envy Charlotte and regret her choice.
Otherwise, her alternative would have been to become a governess or a lady's companion. I'd much rather be mistress of Pemberley, myself. And while Lizzy would have to eat a lot of s**t from Darcy about her inferior origins, she could have taken some pleasure from a delicately arched eyebrow every time Lady Catherine offended.
I like
Emma myself, for the social commentary, but I think Mr. Knightley is a creep of the pedophile variety.