Jane Austen wrote six books in her whole life. The most famous and popular one is Pride and Prejudice. It is once called First Impressions but not be published until in 1813. Pride and Prejudice mainly described the love story of Elizabeth and Darcy. However, Austen expressed her sharp opinion and philosophy by ordinary love affairs. Her works mainly described some realistic things about life, love, marriage and society. The British female writer Virginia Woolf in her work Mrs. Dalloway said that Austen is “The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal, died just as she was beginning to feel confidence in her own success.”(177) Another British novelist William Somerset Maugham puts Pride and Prejudice in his own work Ten Novels and Their Authors and believes readers think it is the masterpiece of Austen. He believed that the work makes a generation of readers get pleasure, enlightenment and instructive.

II. About Pride and Prejudice

Squire Bennet has five daughters, Mrs. Bennet felt worried all day because she wanted to find five nice spouses for his daughters. Their new neighbor Bingley is a wealthy bachelor, Mrs. Bennet’s locked him as her “hunting target” immediately. At a party, Bingley fall in love with the oldest daughter Jane Bennet at first sight. Bingley’s friend Darcy was at the party as well. He is very rich and handsome young man, many girls cast their envious eyes on him. However, he was very arrogant that they don’t deserve to be his partner, including Elizabeth. Elizabeth was so proud as well, so she did not want to pay attention to an arrogant guy. However, Darcy gradually fell in love with her lively manners. Elizabeth accept the invitation and danced with him, and Darcy gradually changed his mind to Elizabeth. Bingley’s sister, Caroline, was bent on marrying Darcy, but Darcy was very indifferent to her. Later she found that Darcy fall in love with Elizabeth, so she was furious and determined to thwart their love. Although he admired Elizabeth, Darcy couldn’t bear her mother and younger sisters’ vulgar, and he was worrying about that Jane was just attracted by Bingley’s property. Even Darcy and Caroline persuade Bingley to go to London, Jane still had deep feeling for him.