assignment # 10

I don’t know whom lady Catherine de Bough thinks she is. She is so stuck up and conceited and she talks to Elizabeth as if she is stupid. She talks to her and seems surprised when she says something back. Lady Catherine seems very mad when Elizabeth responds to her. She just comes up to her house and starts yelling at her and telling her that she is selfish because if she ended up with Darcy she would taint the family name. The fact that Darcy likes Elizabeth is not even Elizabeth’s fault or any of lady Catherine de Bourgh's business. Lady Catherine is determined however, and demands to know if she is going to marry Darcy. Elizabeth refuses to answer her and says it is none of her business until finally she says she has no plans of marrying him, but refuses to promise that she will say no if he proposes again. I think this proves one of Jane Austen’s main points about society. She shows how people who have a lot of money think that other people who are not as fortunate are inferior to them and think that they can say and do whatever they want without anybody saying something back.