A young lady should reject a marriage proposal two or three times even if she is ready to accept it.
Mr. Collins thought so, but I disagree with it, because I think that if a young lady is ready to accept a marriage proposal, she should accept it. Otherwise she may lose her happiness.
Small portion can erase the effects of young lady’s amiable qualifications and loveliness.
Mr. Collins thought so, but I disagree with it, because I believe, that if a man really loves a woman, small dowry wouldn’t prevent him from marrying her.
In case of Eliza’s refusal to marry Mr. Collins Mr. Bennet made up his mind not to see his daughter again.
I disagree. Mr. Bennet approved of his daughter’s decision, but Mrs. Bennet made up his mind not to talk to her daughter again.
Mr. Bingley wasn’t going to come back to Netherfield that winter.
I disagree. I think that Caroline Bingley didn’t want her brother to come back to Netherfield that winter.
Caroline Bingley didn’t wish Jane to be her sister.
I agree. Caroline Bingley wanted to marry Mr. Darcy, that’s why she wanted her brother to marry Miss Darcy to connect their families. The marriage of her brother and Jane wouldn’t have been profitable for her.
Caroline Bingley was going to order her wedding clothes.
I disagree. Could she have seen half as much love in Mr. Darcy for herself,
she would have ordered her wedding clothes. But she understood that Mr. Darcy didn’t love her.
Sir William Lucas enthusiastically made suggestions concerning the length of Mr. Bennet’s life.
I disagree. Lady Lucas began directly to calculate, with more interest than the matter had ever excited before, how many years longer Mr. Bennet was likely to live.
Marriage is the main object for every young educated woman of small fortune.
I agree. Marriage was the only provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
Mr. Bennet heartily invited Mr. Collins to visit them again.
I disagree. Mr. Bennet didn’t want Mr. Collins to come back soon.
Charlotte Lucas was a perfect match for William Collins.
I disagree. William Collins was a perfect match for Charlotte Lucas. Mr. Collins’s present circumstances made it a most eligible match for daughter of Sir William and Lady Lucas, to whom they could give little fortune.
VI. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS OR SPEAK ON THE FOLLOWING:
Why was Elizabeth against a tete-a-tete conversation with Mr. Collins?
Elizabeth was against a tete-a-tete conversation with Mr. Collins because she suspected that he wanted to propose marriage to her.
What were Mr. Collins’s reasons to get married?
Mr. Collins’s reasons for marrying were, first, that he thought it a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances to set the example of matrimony in his parish; secondly, he was convinced that it would add very greatly to his happiness; and thirdly that it was the particular advice and recommendation of the very noble lady whom he has the honour of calling patroness.
How did the Bennets accept Elizabeth’ refusal to marry Mr. Collins?
Mr. Bennet approved of his daughter’s decision, but Mrs. Bennet made up his mind not to talk to her daughter again.
How did Elizabeth explain the meaning of Miss Bingley’s letter to Jane?
Elizabeth explained that Caroline Bingley wanted to marry Mr. Darcy, that’s why she wanted her brother to marry Miss Darcy to connect their families. The marriage of her brother and Jane wouldn’t have been profitable for her. But she was well aware that her brother and Jane loved each other.
Speak on Charlotte Lucas’s scheme.
Charlotte assured her friend of her satisfaction in being useful, and that it amply repaid her for the little sacrifice of her time. This was very amiable, but Charlotte’s kindness extended farther than Elizabeth had any conception of; its object was nothing else than to secure her from any return of Mr. Collins’s addresses, by engaging them towards herself. Such was Miss Lucas’s scheme.
Elizabeth had always felt that Charlotte’s opinion of matrimony was not exactly like her own, but she had not supposed it to be possible that, when called into action, she would have sacrificed every better feeling to worldly advantage. Charlotte the wife of Mr. Collins was a most humiliating picture! And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she had chosen.
VII. RETELL
1. Ch. 19 — on behalf of Mr. Collins
— on behalf of Elizabeth
2. Ch. 20 — on behalf of Mrs. Bennet
— on behalf of Elizabeth
3. Ch. 21 — on behalf of Jane
— on behalf of Elizabeth