Pride and Prejudice (Summary)

In Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen addresses a common reality in England in the early nineteenth century: women who are not rich have to marry well, and  "well" means "a rich man" so that any man of a good family with a large and steady income qualifies for the marriage. Are Rich but not intelligent, not handsome and boring men good for a marriage? To Mrs. Bennet, it is not important. Well, she has five daughters that need a fortune. When some (rich) Mr. Bingley moves to their neighborhood and gets interested in her eldest daughter, Jane, Mrs. Bennet gets very happy and acts as cupid, and that action creates a very uncomfortable situation for her family and innocent bystanders. Bennet family goes to a ball in which Mr. Bingley is going to go too. Mr. Bingley dances with Jane, and they liked each other, but Mr. Darcy, who is Mr. Bingley´s friend, does not want to dance with Elizabeth because he considered poor people “low”. Mr. Bingley talks with him for making him have a reaction for dancing with Elizabeth, but Elizabeth heard Mr. Darcy said “she was not his highness to dance.” Time passed and Elizabeth considered Mr. Darcy arrogant, and she was not that wrong… Jane was invited by Mr. Bingley for going to his house, and she went suffering a hard rain, so she got sick and she had to stay with them for some days. Elizabeth went to take care of her sister and Mr. Darcy realized how beautiful Elizabeth was, but she did not have a good thought of him. Elizabeth had a friend whose name was Charlotte, and she got married with Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins was Elizabeth´s cousin, and he wanted to marry Elizabeth for keeping the house for the family, but she did not accept ever, so Charlotte persuaded Mr. Collins he had to marry her, and Elizabeth felt something really bad in her feelings due to the action of her friend, but Charlotte explained to her it was better to marry him instead of being single and living in her parent´s house the whole life. Elizabeth knew a man whose name was Wickham, and Wickham said to Elizabeth Mr. Darcy was a bad man who treated himself really bad, and Elizabeth was really disappointed of hearing that, but later Mr. Darcy explains in a letter to her all Wickham said was wrong, and what happened for real was Wickham wanted to go away with Mr. Darcy´s sister, and that he only wanted to have fortune in life no mattering how. Elizabeth also read in that letter Mr. Darcy had said before to Mr. Bingley he did not have to marry Jane because he thought Jane did not love Bingley, so she wanted only his money and possessions, and Elizabeth felt bad of having prejudiced Mr. Darcy. Wickham went away with Lydia, and Mr. Bennet allows her to go and be happy. Elizabeth did not agree with her father´s decision, but she could not do anything about it. After this, Mr. Darcy´s aunt goes to visit Elizabeth and says to her she has not to accept any proposal of Darcy, but later Elizabeth talks with Darcy and says to him what had happened. They got each other in love.