The story starts with the arrival of Bingleys to the Netherfield, a part of England. The Bennets were eager to marry off their five daughters. So, they saw a potential groom in the Bingley. Along with Bingley, Darcy, his close friend and confidante, also arrived at Netherfield. Darcy was very proud and his vanity was generally disliked by everyone. He was much abhorred by the Bennets.
After some meetings and dinner together, the eldest Miss Bennet, Jane was falling for Bingley and the emotion was mutual. After sometime in Netherfield, Bingleys and Darcy went back to their native suddenly without informing anyone.
Since Bennets didn't have any male heir, all their wealth would go to Mr. Collins, Mr. Bennet's cousin, after the death of Mr. Bennet. This made Mrs. Bennet envy Mr. Collins. When Mr. collins
arrived at Longbourn, he was given fake cordiality by Mrs. Bennet. Mr. Collins asked for Elizabeth's hand which was duly rejected by Ms.Elizabeth. After that, Mr. Collins married one of the friends of Elizabeth.
Since Mr. Bingley had not arrived at Netherfield for more than one year, Bennets confirmed that it must be the work of Darcy who didn't approve the relationship between Mr. Bingley and Jane. This made the Bennets and especially Ms. Elizabeth detest him more.
When Elizabeth went to spend some time with her friend (Mr. Collin's Wife), she got introduced to the well wisher and the care taker of Mr. Collins. She was a proud lady and Miss. Elizabeth was not at all pleased with her. She also happened to be a relative of Darcy. During the period she was in Mr. Collins home, Darcy came to meet his relative. They were having dinner or lunch together frequently. During one such occasions, when Darcy and Elizabeth happened to be alone in Mr. Collin's home, Darcy asked for Elizabeth's hand. She told Darcy that she hated him because he was the reason for Bingley not marrying Jane and she also gave lots of other reasons for not approving his proposal. But when she came to know that the same Bingley had helped in finding his ran away sister and her boyfriend and when Darcy himself sent her a letter in which he gave explanation to all her wrong impressions on him, she thought how she was overpowered by prejudices for this young man and she was sorry for that.
Overall, this is a book where all the happenings of events in day to day life were well portrayed in detail. One should not go by prejudices and one should never be so proud of oneself.
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