“There is, I believe in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome” (58).
No matter how intelligent or good-natured a person is, they are going to have faults. Darcy is the only one to admit his faults; however, that does not mean he is the only one with them. Though Darcy has a resentful temper, Elizabeth has a predisposed prejudice toward him. Elizabeth made up her mind that Darcy is proud and conceited; therefore, there is nothing respectable about him. Elizabeth claims that his “defect is a propensity to hate everybody” (58). Instead of defending himself, Darcy states that Elizabeth’s defect “is willfully to misunderstand them” (58). Darcy suggests that Elizabeth is purposely choosing to have the wrong impression of him. He wants her to know that even if she made up her mind about him, she is wrong and does not know everything.
The reader can infer that by Mr. Collins constantly mentioning his relationship to Lady Catherine de Bourg he views the class system as:
A.) extremely important
B.) absurd
C.) unfair
D.) ineffective
E.) tolerable
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