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Elizabeth's family had 5 daughters to marry off, and they were not wealthy, just comfortable. Mr. Darcy was very well off. They weren't titled, any of them and they didn't move in the haute ton. That was their major difference and were socially equal. Elizabeth wasn't inferior.
That's a major point in the book. Elizabeth is not Darcy's social inferior. She is his economic inferior. And while it might be hoped that Darcy would marry a fortune, it wasn't expected, as the number of equal fortunes would have been slim to none. Darcy falls in love with a woman who is intellectually and socially his equal, who demonstrates good taste and judgment (even if the same isn't true of her mother or sisters), who possesses the basic accomplishments for a woman of her time and rank, and who challenges him.
It's puzzling to me that the answers you're getting focus on the "inferior" and not on your question, which seems to ask why Darcy falls in love. (Funny how Americans shy away in horror at the idea of someone being inferior.) Or is the inferiority what you're trying to ask about?
If you're asking why he falls in love with her, he falls in love for the same reasons that anyone might: She's pretty, she's intelligent, she has a lively personality. And perhaps he likes that she treats him with indifference.
It's puzzling to me that the answers you're getting focus on the "inferior" and not on your question, which seems to ask why Darcy falls in love. (Funny how Americans shy away in horror at the idea of someone being inferior.) Or is the inferiority what you're trying to ask about?
I took his question to mean why would Mr Darcy allow himself to fall in love with Elizabeth who was his social inferior, which she wasn't. IMO, everybody falls in love for different reasons...but the question hinged around Mr Darcy falling in love with somebody who was beneath him.
Plus.... opposites attract! Elizabeth was very different 'personality-wise' than any of the females that Darcy was used to coming into contact with,and she was not trying to win him,because she was not interested in him,so she was totally being her true self,and not putting on a false front.
Plus.... opposites attract! Elizabeth was very different 'personality-wise' than any of the females that Darcy was used to coming into contact with,and she was not trying to win him,because she was not interested in him,so she was totally being her true self,and not putting on a false front.
Right. She impressed him by not trying to impress him, like other women.
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