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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, he is super rich and handsome but he's a serious jerk and very arrogant. He meets Elizabeth and describes her as "tolerable," he finds her family to be low class and trash; he breaks up the relationship between Bingley and Jane and he insults Lizzie as he proposes to her. What the hell? [b]Why do we think he's such a dream boat?[[/b]/quote] I think we need to look at this in a Regency context. It seems like a little thing, even inconsequential, that Elizabeth's sisters' behavior doesn't have much impact on Darcy's interest in her, but the cultural expectation and attitude of the time dictated that the sisters' behavior (especially the "elopement" and forced marriage) would severely hurt Lizzie's marriage chances. The fact that a man of Darcy's station not only stayed interested, but went out of his way to help clean up the slutty sister mess, would be all but unheard of in that time. [/quote]
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