You know, I like to consider myself to be a relatively smart man. But I did not really see those sexual undertones coming. I could easily see the business angle, the whole strengthening of family bonds and dowry thing (that and Mr. Bennet running the world of Pride and Prejudice in the same manner as a Templar is a pretty neat-o idea). The psychological analysis of Elizabeth having penis envy and Mr. Bennet subconsciously wanting wang-ram his daughter proved to be fascinating in a weird Freudian kind of way.
Any-who, I wonder, am I the only one who thought that it was perfectly reasonable for Elizabeth to be kind of freaked out when she was taken down a peg or two when she received Darcy's letter? I might be in the minority here, but I kind of sympathize with Darcy.... Like from day one... he is the same kind of anti-social misanthrope I look up to (next to Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw). The fact that he had to kick himself in the pants to pluck up the courage to ask Elizabeth to marry him, even willing to over look the fact that if she were any other person, he probably wouldn't have given them the time of day.
It's understandable for Elizabeth to be out of whack after she's been disillusioned so thoroughly, not just because she wishes she had a crank to yank till she wanked. Who knows, maybe I'm prideful or maybe even prejudiced.
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