IndependentNovel2Pride&Prejudice

=__Major Plot Events__=

The first thing said is "a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife." The Bennets are talking about how a house was bought by a young rich man (Bingley), and he's single. Mrs. Bennet wants to marry one of her 5 daughters to Bingley. Mr. Bennet went to visit Bingley without his family knowing. When he told his family, they were all overjoyed. The daughters want to find out more about Bingley. Days later, Bingley came to visit Mr. Bennet but didn't meet any of the daughters. They invited him back to dinner but couldn't go because of his trip to London. He came back and brought back his sisters, cousins, and friend. At the dance, everyone met Darcy. He looked better than Charles but had a nasty personality because he was so rich. Bingley was very lively at the dance, Darcy was the opposite. Bingley danced with Jane all night and said she was beatuiful. Lizzy heard a conversation that Darcy and Bingley had and Darcy wants a rich girl. Jane and Lizzy were talking later that night about Bingley and his sisters and then they talk about how he got rich.
 * __Chapters 1-4__**

__**Chapters 5-8**__ William Lucas, his wife, and their children are the Bennet's neighbors. Their daughter, Charlotte, is Elizabeth’s best friend. They were talking about the ball the night before and the conversation turned to Darcy. Bingley's sisters come and visit Jane and Lizzy to be friends. Charles still tries to be with Jane and Darcy ends up liking Lizzy. He starts paying a lot of attention to her. We find out that Mr. Bennet's land must be passed down to a man in the family and none of his daughters could get it if he died. Later, Jane gets invited to Bingley's house and she ended up catching a sickness and having to stay at his house. Lizzy goes to visit her while it's pouring rain and when she arrives at the Bingley's soaked, they all insist that she's stays there as well. While the Bennets are there, the Bingley sisters start to mess with them. They say that they don't have a lot of money and they have bad marriage traditions. Charles and Darcy defend them though and Darcy goes on about what he wants in a woman and Lizzy thinks it's way too much for her.

The next day, Mrs. Bennet and 2 other daughters go to visit Jane. Mrs. Bennet tries to convince Bingley of staying in the neighborhood and she starts taking it too far and says too much. Then one of the other daughters ask Bingley if he would hold a ball in his house. He replied that Jane must feel better in order for him to do that. Later, Lizzy and Darcy get into an argument and when Darcy asks Lizzy to dance she denies him and it only makes his admiration toward her stronger. Miss Bingley gets jealous and starts talking about the Bennets to make Darcy not interested in them. Miss Bingley does things that doesn't interest her at all to impress Darcy, such as reading.
 * __Chapters 9-12__**

The next morning, the Bennets found out about Mr. Collins who would be the person to inherit Mr. Bennet's property. Mr. Collins wants to get married and Mr. Bennet mentioned that Jane might be getting engaged. So Mr. Collins starts to focus on Lizzy. Later, the girls run into old friends, Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham. Wickham and Darcy seem to not like each other at all. The crowd goes to a dinner party that is hosted by the Phillips. At the party Wickham seems to be the center of attention and him and Lizzy end up finding each other by the end of the night. Lizzy immediately likes Wickham and they get into the story of his life about how he wanted to go into ministry but didn't have enough money. We then find out that Darcy's dad was supposed to help him with it but Darcy used some kind of scam so that he would have the money to himself. The next day, Lizzy expresses her likeliness about Wickham to Jane and she defended Darcy.
 * __Chapters 13-17__**

Days later there is a ball that Lizzy is very excited for so she could see Wickham but unfortunately he didn't show up. She found out that Wickham doesn't like to be around Darcy and he stays away from where he is. Lizzy is very unhappy at the dance and when she speaks to Darcy it's very awkward and she brings up Wickham which made it worse. At the end of the dance she runs into Miss Bingley who tells Lizzy not to trust Wickham but she doesn't really believe her. The next day, Mr. Collins proposes to Lizzy but she turns him down. A few days after that, Lizzy runs into Wickham. He apologizes for not seeing her for so long and she brings her home to meet her parents. Later on, Miss Bingley sends a letter to Jane to tell her that Charles is going to marry one of Darcy's sisters. Not too long after that, Mr. Collins and Charollette were to get married. Lizzy was shocked and her mom was furious that she had let another husband go by.
 * __Chapters 18-23__**

Miss Bingley sends another letter that says that Charles will be staying in London all winter which crushes all the hope of the Bennets that he will be staying in their city. Mr. Bennet seems to persuade Lizzy to try harder to get Wickham. Mrs. Bennet's brother, Mr. Gardiner comes to stay with the family. He noticed Jane's unhappiness and invited her to go to London with him. She accepts because she thinks the change of scenery will help her and she might get to run into Bingley. He also doesn't encourage Lizzy and Wickham because of his lack of money. Mr. Collins and Charolette get married and Wickham's feelings change for a lady, Miss King.
 * __Chapters 24-26__**

In March, Lizzy travels to visit Charolette and Mr. Collins. On the way, they spent a night with Jane and the Gardiners and before she leaves, the Gardiners invite her on a tour with them. When she arrives to her friend Charolette, it's a really nice place. At dinner, Lady Catherine is the center of attention and she points out all of the Bennet's daughters flaws. About a week later, Darcy and his family leave to visit their other family. At dinner that night, Darcy's cousin keeps his eye on Lizzy and Catherine still insists on pointing out all of her flaws. Darcy and Lizzy have an awkward conversation about Bingley and Lizzy realizes that maybe his cousin is the one interested in Lizzy.
 * __Chapters 27-34__**

The next day Lizzy takes a walk and runs into Darcy. He gives her a letter and when she reads it and in it is Darcy admitting to trying to break up Bingley and Jane and that he actually did help Wickham after his father died but he did it so that Wickham wouldn't want to marry his sister for her fortune. Lizzy is completely shocked by this and she decided not to trust Darcy at all. Lizzy leaves Charolette and goes back to the Gardiner's. Then Lizzy and Jane return home. When they get home, Lizzy finds out that Wickham isn't interested in Miss King anymore but she still doesn't want to see him. Lizzy sees Wickham once before he leaves the area and they talk about Darcy and she doesn't mention anything that Darcy has told her in the letter. In July, Lizzy is offered to take a tour with the Gardiners out by Darcy's home. When she finds out that he won't be there for a while, she accepts.
 * __Chapters 35-42__**

__**Chapters 43-45**__ As Elizabeth tours the place, she imagines what it would be like to live there as Darcy's rich wife. The housekeeper there shows Lizzy portraits of Darcy and tells her stories about how he used to be the nicest boy when he was littler and Lizzy is shocked to hear that. During the tour, Darcy appears and joins them. He seems a lot nicer than ever. The next day Darcy and his sister Georgina visit Lizzy. Bingley goes along with them and all of them and the Gardiners go out to dinner that night. By the next day, Miss Bingley tries to criticize Lizzy to Darcy but he kept saying that she was more beautiful than ever.

When Lizzy returns to her inn, she has 2 letters from Jane. One of them says that Lydia has got engaged to Wickham but the second letter says that there is no word from them and they might not be married yet. Lizzy realizes that if Lydia doesn't marry Wickham then the reputation of her and the family will be ruined. Lizzy rushes to find the Gardiners and Darcy appears. She tells him what she finds out and he blames himself for not exposing Wickham and Lizzy blames herself for the same reason. Lizzy and the Gardiners head back home. On the way home Mr. Gardiner tries to convince Lizzy that Wickham would want to marry Lydia and that everything will go as planned. Lizzy tells them about his past life but still doesn't expose him and Georgina. When they get home, Lizzy finds out that her dad went to London to search for Lydia and Wickham. Mr. Gardiner follows Mr. Bennet to London with an unsuccessful search. Mr. Bennet is going to every hotel looking for the couple. Mr. Bennet still had an unsuccessful search and started to head home. After he gets home, Mr. Gardiner writes a letter to say that the couple is found and they are to get married as long as the Bennets give Wickham a small income. They decided that's a good idea compared to a ruined reputation.
 * __Chapters 46-49__**

Lizzy realized that her feelings for Darcy changed so much that if he were to propose to her again she would accept. Mr. Gardiner writes another letter to Mr. Bennet and Wickham says that he's going to travel north. Lydia wants to visit her family before they head up there. At this point, there is so much disagreement with their family and Wickham doesn't believe that he's caused any of it. One morning, Lizzy, Jane and Lydia were talking and Lydia described her wedding to them. She said that Darcy appeared in the church. Lizzy wants to find out more about it. Mrs. Gardiner tells Lizzy that Darcy was the one that found Lydia and Wickham and Darcy paid Wickham the money for the marriage, supposedly for his love for Lizzy. After Wickham and Lydia go to their new home, there is news floating around that Bingley will be back for a few weeks. Mr. Bennet refuses to visit him but Bingley and Darcy come to the Bennet's home days later. They all go out to dinner and Bingley sits next to Jane and pays a lot of attention to her, while Darcy sits on the opposite side of the table from Lizzy. Lizzy thinks that he won't propose to her again. Days later, they go out to eat again and they leave Bingley and Jane alone but he doesn't propose to her but he asks Mr. Bennet for the marriage of his daughter and he accepts.
 * __Chapters 50-55__**

A week after that, Lady Catherine comes to visit the Bennets and she has a talk with Lizzy saying that Darcy wants to marry her. The whole time Catherine still doesn't think that Lizzy and her family is worth Darcy and Lizzy stands up for herself. At the end of the conversation, Lizzy keeps it a secret. Later, a letter from Mr. Collins appeared that said that the wedding with Lizzy and Darcy should happen but Mr. Bennet doesn't want anything to do with that. Darcy moves in with Bingley and they all go for a walk together. When Lizzy and Darcy get alone she thanks him for everything he's done and he tells her that his feelings haven't changed since he proposed to her and she tells him that she wishes to marry him. The next day, Darcy goes to Mr. Bennet to ask for his daughter in marriage. At the end, everything ends up on good terms.
 * __Chapters 56-61__**

=Characters=

intelligent quick witted protagonist lovely clever honest true
 * __Elizabeth Bennet__**

clever haughty reserved fastidious proud disagreeable dynamic
 * __Darcy__**

__**Jane Bennet**__ cheerful friendly good natured

__**Charles Bingley**__ extremely agreeable young cheerful wonderfully handsome sociable

__**Mr. Bennet**__ sarcastic reserve caprice quick thinking

understanding little information uncertain temper foolish gossiper discontent/nervous wants to get daughters married fussy
 * __Mrs. Bennet__**

=Themes & Motifs= love journeys marriage reputation class

=Literary Elements=
 * symbol:** music-criticism, events, meeting new people
 * foils:** Jane & Lizzy, Bingley & Darcy
 * irony:** Wickham's plan, the diverse marriages