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anghraine:

anghraine:

Darcy’s role in P&P would work for me anyway, but tbh it works for me 10x better because he halfway reverts back to form towards the end of the book.

Like:

She [Elizabeth] had ventured only one glance at Darcy. He looked serious as usual; and, she thought, more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire, than as she had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps, he could not in her mother’s presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt.

Mr Darcy was almost as far from her [Elizabeth] as the table could divide them. He was on one side of her mother. She knew how little such a situation would give pleasure to either, or make either appear to advantage. She was not near enough to hear any of their discourse; but she could see how seldom they spoke to each other, and how formal and cold was their manner whenever they did.

[Note: he did try to compliment Mrs Bennet during this conversation, and even to Elizabeth, it came off like … that.]

During his engagement:

Elizabeth did all she could to shield him from the frequent notice of either [Mrs Bennet or Mrs Phillips], and was ever anxious to keep him to herself, and to those of her family with whom he might converse without mortification; and though the uncomfortable feelings arising from all this took from the season of courtship much of its pleasure, it added to the hope of the future

This is so much more credible to me than the idea of a totally!!!!transformed Darcy who is just perfectly smooth and open and personable at all times. Put him in a place like Longbourn and, yeah, he’ll still retreat into his turtle shell of icy standoffishness. About the best the narrator can say of his demeanor there is that he manages to stay calm around Mr Collins. But Darcy’s (mostly) not being rude or snobbish about it, or refusing to even try. He has grown—but not into someone totally unrecognizable.

I love this nuance too.

Of course it’s much more realistic and relatable than if he transformed completely. It belies any claim that Austen wrote an impossible, unhealthy fantasy of “woman changes man.”

And the fact that Elizabeth wholeheartedly loves this Darcy – this still imperfect yet humbled and effort-making Darcy, warts and all – shows that she truly loves him, and not some role he learns to play.

#so many takes on darcy seem to think his presentation of himself at pemberley is a permanent radical transformation of his personality#and the end point of his character arc#and it’s explicitly not a static end point in that way#his inwards change is real but how much that translates into outwards presentation depends on the context#like late-novel darcy trying to compliment mrs bennet and doing it in a way that reads as icy and brusque is just peak darcy#the difference isn’t that he’s become personable in this social context; he’s not! but he’s doing his best now#and this being an ongoing struggle at which he sometimes comically fails is so much more austen#than the total transformation into a perfect dreamboat narrative#but yeah i love that austen goes out of her way at the end to yank him out of his fulfillment enclosures and underscores his foibles

@anghraine’s original tags are good, too.

Thank you very much, both of you! I do agree that it’s important that Elizabeth doesn’t fall in love with a fundamentally artificial and forced performance that Darcy puts on, or with an unrealistically completely!!! transformed!!!!!! Darcy, but with someone who always had it in him to think about what she said and correct himself, rather than taking the easy path of dismissing all of her criticisms just because they were mixed in with misunderstandings and some pure bullshit. She values the respect that quickly led him to think about what she said and try to do better, not for becoming smooth and easygoing and charming (things that never happen).

(I meant to respond to @princesssarisa and @chocoholicbec months ago and have seen this post picking up notes today, so it seemed like a good time—especially on this auspicious occasion for Austen fans!)

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Clean home checklist:

• “Do the laundry” as if doing laundry doesn’t have 27 individual steps that each require other tasks to get done. Each task runs the risk of starting additional secret tasks.
• “Organize kitchen” my brain has malware and it’s overheating. CPU at 100%. There are no executives at my function

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