“Elizabeth’s impatience
to acquaint Jane with what had happened could no longer be overcome; and at
length resolving to suppress every particular in which her sister was
concerned, and preparing her to be surprised, she related to her the next
morning the chief of the scene between Mr. Darcy and herself” (Austen XVII.
146).
Elizabeth tells Jane the truth about Mr. Darcy, but
leaves out the portion of the letter that revolves around Mr. Bingley and Jane.
Jane deserves to know the truth about why Mr. Bingley left, even though it is
partly because of her lack of response to Mr. Bingley. Most importantly it is
because of the impropriety of her
family, and Jane really cannot change that. It is a lot better to know the
truth about the situation and be able to move on, instead of continuing to wonder
why everything transpired the way that it did. Elizabeth is also now aware of
Mr. Darcy’s feelings towards her, and she is developing feelings for him, yet
nothing is happening between them. Elizabeth has gotten over her odious opinion of Mr. Darcy, and she
has not even bothered to tell him that. Characters in books never inform others
how they feel, or what they are thinking. If characters, and people in the real
world always told one another how they actually felt everything would be
different. For example Othello, instead of communicating to Desdemona about his
concerns about a possible affair between Desdemona and Cassio, everything could
have been fixed right there and then. Elizabeth acts with no celerity, and she assumes that
everything will work out. She should be informing Jane, and then she should try
to fix Jane and Mr. Bingley’s relationship.
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