![]() ![]() 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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