Chapter XI was an interesting read for me. Jane Austen put a statement at the end that just sends chills down you spine.
"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
I feel that this was a contradicting statement considering he was trying to impress her in earlier chapters. I think the reason that he is kind of venturing away from Elizabeth is because her personality came through to him. I can infer that Elizabeth kind of saw that he was trying to impress her, so she kind of went along with it. I also feel that she really started to like him; that's also when Darcy started to get the bad signal.
At one point in the chapter, the Bingley's are joking with Mr. Darcy, but Elizabeth was hurt and started to defend Darcy. Here is an excerpt:
"And as to laughter, we will not expose ourselves, if you please, by attempting to laugh without a subject. Mr. Darcy may hug himself."
"'Mr. Darcy is not to be laughed at!' cried Elizabeth..."
The first part of the little scene, was kind of showing the playfulness between Darcy and the Bingley's. The Bingley's are basically saying, "If we are going to have a laugh, Darcy can automatically be the subject of the laughter."
Obviously, Elizabeth is hurt, and she says the first thing on her mind in an effort to defend Darcy. I honestly think that Darcy did not like that she was only trying to be nice, so that is why he was having those thoughts mentioned in the beginning of this post.
~Ana Gabriela
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