Pride and Prejudice

I just finished reading Pride and Prejudice and I'm so delighted that I can now consider it one of my favourite books ever.

It has been enchanting and I was so excited and amused while reading it! During the last scenes my heart was really pounding with great expectations and anticipation of what may happen that I still didn't know.
I must say that the film made the last scenes look more "romantic" and passionate, whereas the book is more delicate and rational about them, but I felt all Elizabeth, Darcy and Jane's struggles as well as their joy in a way that moved me.
I expected something more in the ending, where we are informed about the happy conditions of the eldest sisters but not much is said about the joy of their romance. Of course it's all left to our imagination that won't hang back from doing it with the utmost pleasure, even if I'm afraid my studying won't profit from it.

Jane Austen was really a great writer, I love the way she was able to create such complete and interesting personalities in her characters; she can make them develop a lot through the story, in a way that makes it difficult to guess what their intentions will really be in the next future.
Elizabeth Bennet has such an intelligent but difficult personality and she often lacks of patience and tends to have too much prejudices towards people, like she did in the beginning with "poor" Mr. Darcy. This makes her really an interesting character in my opinion. She is able to change and we participate of her feeling while they wave more and more towards a stable situation and she falls in love.

Like many other ladies who have read this book, I was charmed at the first attempt of Darcy's love declaration, which was startling in its alteration of manners though not completely unexpected:

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
(Mr Darcy ~ Pride and prejudice chapter XI)

The struggle of their relationships and its development made it surely the most interesting one, even if my predilection toward Mr. Bingley and Jane's personalities must be admitted. They're so sweet and cute!! <3

Jane Austen's intelligence and irony is easily conveyed in the character of her father, such a clever man who can at least try to prevent their daughters from their mother's ignorance and make fun of the society still without making any harm to his family. I laughed a lot in the ending, when he said to Lizzy:"I admire all my three sons-in-law highly "(..)"Wickham perhaphs is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's." (Mr Bennet, Chapter XVII) (ahah! (´▽｀*)ｱﾊﾊ I'm afraid the reason of my amusement will be understood only by few people who read it, sorry ^^;).

I'm going to read all her books when my exams are over and I think the next one will be Emma.

I guess Jane Austen would be glad of knowing that a lot of people like me still love her books and stories dearly. I can't help wondering and hoping that she was able through her life to be at least comforted by her happy ending stories the way she can make us dream about them. ☆