The insipidity and yet the noise; the nothingness and yet the self-importance of all these people!
--ch. 6
What really fascinates me about Pride and Prejudice is the interplay between the author, the characters, and their personae. There are clear rifts between the characters as they are and the way they self-conceive and/or are seen by others, and this is brought out by the contrasts between the indirect and the direct characterization. What does this say about the artifice of society? Are these fictional characters living in a fiction themselves?
I apologize for the very late, and very short post. I have not left myself enough time this morning to fully flesh out and support this idea, but I hope what I have done will yet be useful.
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