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Chapter I opens with the celebrated declaration about wealthy single men and wives, then moves into the Bennet household. Mrs. Bennet excitedly reports that Netherfield Park has been let to the wealthy Mr. Bingley, sparking her marital designs for their daughters. Mr.…
A Truth Universally Acknowledged
The chapter opens with the famous assertion that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.…
News of Netherfield Park
Mrs. Bennet informs Mr. Bennet that Netherfield Park is let at last. Mr. Bennet replies that he had not heard, and Mrs. Bennet explains that Mrs.…
Mr. Bingley’s Arrival
Mrs. Long’s news is that Netherfield has been taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England.…
Mrs. Bennet’s Marital Designs
When Mr. Bennet asks how the news affects them, Mrs. Bennet declares that she is thinking of Bingley’s marrying one of them.…
Mr. Bennet’s Reluctance to Visit
Mr. Bennet sees no occasion to call and suggests that his wife and the girls go without him, or send the daughters by themselves—perhaps better still, since she is as handsome as…
The Debate Over the Daughters
Mrs. Bennet argues that the family cannot visit Bingley if Mr. Bennet does not, since Sir William and Lady Lucas mean to call. Mr.…
The Character of Mr. Bennet
The narrator characterizes Mr. Bennet as so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice that the experience of three-and-twenty years has been insufficien…
The Character of Mrs. Bennet
The narrator notes that Mrs. Bennet’s mind was less difficult to develope. She is a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.…
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