2007-06-12 13:27:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
She just is. Look at Little Women. Compare the Bennet girls to the March girls. It's the same thing. There's always different personalities in siblings.
2007-06-12 13:31:24 · answer #1 · answered by Marianne D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elisabeth is similar to Jane. But completely different to Mary , Lydia and Kitty.
Elisabeth has never had the same lust for rich men that Kitty and Lydia have. She's only ever wanted to marry someone who would accept her for who she is and make her happy. Elisabeth also has respect for her family's name and never embarrasses or disgraces herself in public when it was so easy to do so back in that time. She respects her Father a far greater deal than any of the other girls excluding Jane. She is critical of her Mother who pushes her into uncomfortable situations all the time and humiliates her at social parties. However Lydia and Kitty practically honor their Mother and are only to pleased when their Mother comes up with some cracked idea and tries to get them paired off with some rich man. Mary is classified as quiet and a bit of a loner in the novel. However I believe if she was given a more positive look in the novel she would not be too different from Elisabeth or Jane. Mary is intelligent and often lost in thought. It is obvious that she reads a lot.
Hope that helps!
2007-06-14 04:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by Irisheyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My take is this: first, she isn't that much different than her older sister (Jane). I think it's a difference in place in the family. Jane and Elizabeth are more mature then their younger sisters. It's like with most families, the youngest get by with more than the older ones because the parents have mellowed or learned from their experience as parents of the older ones. Lydia, as the youngest, has always had 4 older sisters. She's is the steryotypical little sister: The youngest Bennet sister, she is gossipy, immature, and self-involved. Mary as the middle has the Jan effect (as in Jan Brady), she's kind of left to herself. Catherine as the fourth child, is more like Lydia than she is like Jane or Elizabeth.
2007-06-12 13:37:14 · answer #3 · answered by Michelle F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elizabeth isn't much different from Jane, but she's the only one among all the sisters who has depth of character added to her charming personality. Except for Jane, all the sisters are very shallow and believe what their mum says - that their only goal in life is to catch a husband as soon as they can.
2007-06-13 04:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by prettyprincess_isabella 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From what I understood reading the book, Elizabeth is a lot like her father, where as her sisters are more like their mother in personality. Short answer? Genetics ;-)
2007-06-12 13:30:20 · answer #5 · answered by Bug's Mama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From a literary standpoint, the two characters are foils...conceptually, the characters, as opposites, accentuate the characteristics of the protagonist.
Hope that helps.
2007-06-13 17:21:37 · answer #6 · answered by vitovixa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She doesn't really believe in finding a man as fast as she can to get married and have babies.
2007-06-12 13:29:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
she has a different personality and takes more after her father. it's not that unusual that someone is really different from their siblings and parents.
2007-06-12 13:31:39 · answer #8 · answered by Miss Independent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she is independent and amazing! and not shallow or egotistical
2007-06-12 13:29:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋