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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing is:
He has always been warm, kind. 
The situation with the predator mr wickham, someone he knows has been helped by his own family, made him more guarded. He doesn't trust as well.
I do think he always was a snob, that's true. But what bugs him most about Liz's family is not their lower class, but some of the bad manners he witnessed. Even Liz would admit to those/-she is embarrassed by them too. 
Last, he just sticks his foot in his mouth. He's a little shy, only opens up to people he knows. So he says the wrong things a lot, or else clams up. And people perceive his silence to be rude.

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i don't find him rude. He's paranoid because of fortune hunting mamas and condescending to people of lower social status.[/quote]

I love Mr. Darcy, but he is quite rude, and he thinks it doesn't matter among a bunch of fly-overs living in East Jesus. And Elizabeth's family is embarrassing, and that is a known 18th century literary trope, one used to a more broadly comic effect in a P&P predecessor novel, Fanny Burney's Evelina.

But it is him being so rude that makes Elizabeth's smack down so satisfying, and the subsequent revolution in both characters so satisfying. I like to think they end up together because of the innate goodness of each, allowing them to correct themselves with humility, no easy feat. I also think that a lot of the writers who try to do sequels misunderstand that [i]is isn't about the house.[/i][/quote]

Yes to much of the above from both posters. 
Scenes which support this:  (btw I have read the book three times but because I have seen the movies 700timew, I forget what happens in the book or doesn't (but obviously everyone knows the knightly-McFayden flick is farthest from the book)

Scenes:
-The housekeepers opinion of him. Now, you could all her biased, but as liz's opinion of wickham is turning sour, the housekeeper confirms that too. 
-the fact that bingley is a foil to Darcy. Also wickham is a foil to Darcy. 
--bingley: friendly with everyone, maybe too open and too friendly. Praising everything, constantly optimistic, likable
--wickham: also friendly, open but also deceitful, victimizes himself at least in the telling of his fake sob stories 
--Darcy is opposite of the above. Not open, not outwardly friendly. But at least he's straightforward, tells it like it is, or else keeps his mouth shut.

-georgianna's praise of her brother
-the fact he hasn't ended up with miss bingley already.
-his friendliness to liz's aunt and uncle because, though lower, they are agreeable and have kind manners. Whereas liz's mom, face it, hardly gets along with anyone. The only people mrs Bennett is close with are her gossiping neighbor and her young girls who are not exactly great company either

-he trusted Georgiana's host, but that was a mistake. He's more closed off from new people than ever. Plus, I think he's worried about letting people in, in case they find out about G & mr wickham and start spreading gossip.

-he's just so straightforward and doesn't sugarcoat. The whole conversation about the country being less varied than the city. Stupid of him to say, but true. [/quote]

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