Pride

Being the middle child really puts a strain on someone, so I have come here to vent, about my lovely sister Elizabeth. She rides a very high horse for being considered intelligent and quick witted. Her horse riding might seem justified but when you realize that she is being compared to people like Lydia and my mother you can see that it really is not a great accomplishment. The worst part about her is the amount of pride she has for herself. It is really quite aggravating how highly she thinks of herself but you can only think sorry that YOU think your better than Mr. Collins but nobody else does and did she really want to die alone.Her wit does not make her better than anyone else, I mean people consider ME the most accomplished girl in the neighborhood. She can’t even play a piano properly like does she have any skill set that doesn’t include mouthing off to people. She definitely prides herself on being a good judge of character but she thought Wickham was a good person and Mr. Collins wasn’t. I  don’t think she should be priding herself on that, now should she. Lastly for being someone so definitive in her ways when deciding to marry Darcy she became very wishy washy. It’s odd though because you would think Darcy is the one with the pride but really it’s her. Sometimes I just don’t understand why she thinks so highly of herself and with such pride as well because she has as many flaws as anyone else and really when you tally it up her and Darcy are no better than each other or anyone else. For example Darcy’s Flaws: prejudice, can’t make friends (especially with those beneath him), arrogant, and he is definitely a monster of the social class structure. Elizabeth’s Flaws: pride, naive (Wickham, someone like him isn’t unmarried when they appear to be as great as him unless he has some major character flaws), critical, and also another monster of the social class structure but just in a different way, and by this I mean that by being from the lower to middle class and having her amount of intelligence and wit has inflated her pride enormously.