While Austen sets up the moral and romantic conflict firmly, Ormiston chooses an even more challenging path. Bingley, she finalizes her refusal by proclaiming that he was “the last man in the world whom could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
Wickham and angered by his part in separating her sister Jane from Mr. Insulted by his prejudice against her family, appalled by his injustice towards Mr. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” He then proceeds to explain how he loves her against his will, against his reason, and even against his character. This scene contains some of Jane Austen’s most brilliant dialogue revealing two protagonists so totally at odds with each other that we cannot see how they could possibly end up as a loving couple by the end of the novel. Darcy proposes to our heroine Elizabeth Bennet. This Pride and Prejudice “what if” starts out one-third of the way into the original novel at the pivotal moment when Mr. I have no wish to influence you either way-yet-but rather keep you in suspense, “according to the usual practice of elegant females.” Bus accidents are terrible, tragic, things, and terribly hard to look away from. While some may foresee this question as a polite warning of a negative review lurking in the shrubberies, I am now adding Unequal Affections to my “bus accident” list.
Like failed love affairs, I can remember each of them in an instant: Wuthering Heights, Tess of the D’Urberville’s, Mansfield Park, The Wings of a Dove, and Anna Karenina. Have you ever read a book that culminated in such a passionate love/hate relationship that you were compelled to read it again to understand what it was that evoked such a profound reaction? I have.
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