"Yes [...] but that was only when I first knew her; for it is many months since i have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance" (253).
-Mr. Darcy is responding to Miss Bingley's rude remarks on Elizabeth, mocking him on how used to marvel her as a beauty. And suprisingly he agrees with her saying that he had thought she was beautiful. And surprisingly Elizabeth has become attracted to him, inverse of how the story played out in the beginning of the book: "never had she so honestly felt that she could have loved him, as now, when all love must be vain" (259). This goes to show that sometimes ones first impressions or prejudices of a person can and most likely are misleading. For example looking at Mr. Darcy, he believed Elizabeth to be a simple girl with a bad family, so he assumed he could easily win her hand in marriage. Instead he was rejected. And the reason he was rejected was because Elizabeth held prejudice views of him only looking at him the way Mr. Wickham described him to be and based off her first impressions. Both never took the time to learn about each other through actual interactions they had with each other; instead they just chose to hold prejudice views of the other person that they formed from a couple of observations.
Why does Elizabeth feel she is partially to blame?
a. she hated Lydia
b. she liked Wickham
c. she thought should have been with Lydia so that it would not have happened
d. she didn't tell anybody about his true nature
e. none of the above
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