1. Pride and Prejudice Marriage and Money

2. It’s about this guy

3. And this girl

4. And how they got married

5. Who are the other sisters? Jane Mary Kitty Lydia

6. Who is Mr. Bingley?

7. Mr. Bingley rents the house next door. He has two sisters.

8. Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley

9. Miss Bingley has her eye on Mr. Darcy

10. Mr. Bingley is in love with Jane Bennet

11. Mr. Bingley has lots of money He gets 4-5,000 (pounds) a year This is equal to about $135,000 per year (without working)

12. But Mr. Darcy is richer He gets 10,000 pounds per year That is equal to $600,000 per year No work involved

13. Cast of characters Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist of the novel. She is the second of the five Bennet sisters. She must overcome the prejudice that she forms against Mr. Darcy upon their first meeting.

14. Jane Bennet Jane is Elizabeth’s older sister. She falls in love with Mr. Bingley

15. Mr. Bingley A good-natured fellow who is easily swayed by his friends, Bingley falls in love with Jane but the contrivances of his sister and his friend Darcy keep them apart.

16. Lydia Bennet Youngest sister to Jane and Elizabeth, Lydia is a vivacious, social teenager. She is also materialistic and shallow.

17. Miss Bingley Sister to Mr. Bingley, Miss Bingley contrives to get her brother away from Jane and to snare Mr. Darcy as a husband.

18. Mr. Darcy (Fitzwilliam) This wealthy friend of Mr. Bingley has excessive pride which gets in the way of his love. He is despised by the people of Meryton. He is the nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and it is believed that he will marry her daughter.

19. Mrs. Bennet Is a foolish, garrulous woman whose main goal in life is to get her five daughters married.

20. Mr. Wickham This attractive officer wins over Elizabeth and all of Meryton with his tale of ill use by the despised Mr. Darcy.

21. Mr. Collins Mr. Collins is a cousin of the Bennet's to whom Longbourn, the Bennet estate, is entailed. This pompous, comic character seeks a wife among the Bennet ladies. He is overly fastidious in his attentions to his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

22. Charlotte Lucas This woman is Elizabeth Bennet’s best friend. At twenty-seven, she is likely to be a poor spinster if she does not marry a wealthy man.

23. Lady Catherine de Bourgh This opinionated woman is the patron of Mr. Collins. Accustomed to the power of her rank and money, she expects that everyone will treat her with fawning attention. Along with Mr. Collins, she is one of Austen’s most famous comic characters.

24. Who lives Where? The Bennets live at Longbourn The militia is stationed in the town outside of the Bennet's home called Meryton Bingley has rented Netherfield Park All of these properties are in an area of England called Hertfordshire

26. The Bennet Girls The Bennet daughter called Kitty is really Catherine Described by Darcy as “tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.” is Elizabeth who is also called Eliza and Lizzie. The youngest Bennet daughter is Lydia The Bennet daughter who never finds fault with anyone is Jane Mary is the studious and plain daughter

27. Bingley says “Whatever I do is done is done in a hurry…and therefore if I should resolve to quit Netherfield, I should probably be off in five minutes.”

28. Charlotte Lucas says “Happiness in a marriage is entirely a matter of chance…it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

29. Jane says “I was very much flattered by his (Bingley’s) asking me to dance a second time. I did not expect such a compliment.”

30. Mrs. Bennet says “If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.”

31. Darcy says “I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself…My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

32. Wickham says “A military life is not what I was attended for, but circumstances have now made it eligible. The church ought to have been my profession—I was brought up for the church, and I should at this time have been in possession of a most valuable living, had it pleased the gentleman we were speaking of just now(Darcy).”

33. Miss Bingley “Let me recommend you (Miss Bennet) as a friend, not to give explicit confidence to all Mr. Wickham’s assertions; for as to Mr. Darcy’s using him ill, it is perfectly false; for, on the contrary, he has been always remarkably king to him, though George Wickham has treated Mr. Darcy in a most infamous manner….but really, considering Mr. Wickham’s descent, one could not expect much better. “

34. Elizabeth says “That would be the greatest misfortune of all! – To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate.”

35. Mr. Collins says “ I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honorable Lady Catherine De Bourgh ….whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavor to demean myself with grateful respect towards her Ladyship.”

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