Elizabeth Interpretations

From reading the text, there are a few interpretations I've made of Elizabeth. One is that she can be a gossip, shown when tells everyone that Darcy said she is 'not handsome enough to tempt me', with the narrator saying 'she told the story however with great spirit among her friends'. Darcy was new in town so she immediately gave everyone a biased view on him by telling them this, not letting them form their own opinions, with her gossiping being the possible reason for Darcy being thought of as 'disagreeable' and 'horrid' by people such as Mrs Bennett.

Elizabeth it seems is interested in love more than marriage. Love for her is important, shown when she says to Charlotte 'if I were determined to get a rich husband, or any husband, I dare say I should adopt it', referring to Charlotte's plan on getting married, showing that just getting a husband is not important to her, it is love that she wants.

She also seems quite sarcastic, shown when she answers that she began to love Darcy from 'first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley', when we in fact know that Elizabeth does not wish to marry for money, but for love, shown in the previous paragraph. Earlier in the novel, when she believes Mr Darcy to be rude that 'Mr Darcy is all politeness', again showing her sarcastic side.