In Pride and Prejudice, which characters do you like the best and the least and why?

Question

How would you describe their characters?

Answer 1

I like D'Arcy best, because I think I can relate to him. He is cool, innerdirected, and stoical — he reminds me, oddly enough, of the way Clark Gable played Rhett Butler in the movie of Gone With the Wind (thoough they are quite different — D'Arcy isn't a swashbuckling scoundrel with a heart of gold). But I think I can see in Rhett a character, invented 150 year's later, a more enterprising, fuller development, of a romantic hero that Jane Austen prefigured well before Lord Byron came around to exempllify the type.

I almost don't want to write about who I dislike most in the same post, because the short novel is full of all kinds of insipid creeps who pretend to be otherwise. Austen excelled herself in sharp depiction of the social parasites of her day. This sets a nice contrast to the positive characters: Darcy, Jane, Mr. Bennet, and a few others. If I had to make a choice from among the creeps, I guess I'd go fo Collins, the unctuous and patronizing clergyman who is out to make the most of things for himself and regards himself as God's gift to a lucky woman (if you like the P&P portrayal of this type, you'd probably like the more bitter satire by Trollope in his clerical novels of Barset written later in the next century).

Answer 2

Mr. Bennett is the best. He's droll and dry. I love his comments. However, I know people who have interpreted him as being cruel and callous to Mrs. Bennett. Personally, I'd have strangled her long before the setting of "Pride"...

I like Mrs. Bennett the least. She's obsessed with marrying her daughters off, and for me it cuts a little too close to what I've observed with my friends and what not.

Answer 3

I love Mr. Darcy. Mysterious, reserved, sometimes vain, but he always seemed perfect for Elizabeth. I also loved Elizabeth, because she was always the one to branch out, the one with a different style of thinking. I despise Mr. Bingley's sisters. Uhh! They're DEVILS! And I didn't really like Mrs. Bennet. Too uptight and yearning for others to think highly of her.

Answer 4

I love Mr. Bennet, he has a very droll sense of humor that I appreciate. Though he does ignore some of his daughters' behavior until it is too late to correct it (in Lydia's case), which isn't good... but I love him anyway ;-)

Answer 5

Lizzie the best, the one that runs off with her sister the least. one of austen's greatest novels, but i can not recall his name.

Answer 6

Lizzie - she stands up for what she believes in and doesn't let anyone tell her what to do - i wish i could be like that sometimes