【正文】 after the proposal, the novel chronicles the slow, steady growth of her love. At the moment, however, Elizabeth’s attitude toward Darcy corresponds to the judgments she has already made about him. She refuses him because she thinks that he is too arrogant, part of her first impression of him at the Meryton ball, and because of the role she believes he played in disinheriting Wickham and his admitted role in disrupting the romance between Jane and Mr. Bingley.Just as Elizabeth yields to her prejudices, Darcy allows his pride to guide him. In his proposal to Elizabeth, he spends more time emphasizing Elizabeth’s lower rank than actually asking her to marry him. This turning point thus occurs with the two central characters occupying seemingly irreconcilable emotional locations, leaving the reader, in the words of critic Douglas Bush, “almost exactly in the middle of the book, wondering if and how the chasm…can be bridged.”(Jane Austen, page 95)The following day, Darcy gives Elizabeth a letter, and then he walks away. Elizabeth begins to read. In the letter, Darcy again admits to attempting to break Mr. Bingley’s romance with Jane, but when Darcy enters the room, Miss Bingley makes a spiteful ment to Elizabeth, nothing that the departure of the militia from Meryton “must be a great loss to your family.” After the guests depart, Miss Bingley attempts to criticize Elizabeth to Darcy, and makes a light remark about how he once thought Elizabeth “rather pretty.” Darcy replies that he now considers Elizabeth “one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.” Miss Bingley is overeager and her aggressive pursuit of Darcy highlights her obnoxiousness. Indeed, Miss Bingley reappears with more spite than before. The meanspiritedness is behind her derisive insinuation about the Bennet girls’ obsession with the soldiers.The above episode in the film is different from the one in the book. When Elizabeth and Gardiners visited Pemberley to call on Ms. Darcy, there were just Darcy and his sister in the room. Ms. Darcy was very friendly when she saw Elizabeth. She said to Elizabeth: “My brother has told me so much about you. I feel as if we were friends already.” “Well, thank you.” Elizabeth replied. From the conversation between Ms. Darcy and Elizabeth we can see that Darcy has determined to pursue Elizabeth regardless of other factors, just as social status, let alone Miss Bingley’s interference. Mr. Collins’ proposal to Elizabeth In the film, the audiences can see the whole process of how Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth, which the novel hasn’t mentioned. From this episode we find that Mr. Collins is really amusing and idiotic. In the story, Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and neither education nor society had improved him much. He was too conscious of his own importance, and, at the same time, too humbly afraid of giving offence, especially to those above him in rank. A fortunate chance had remended him to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, when the living at Hunsford became vacant. Having now a good house and a large enough ine, he intended to marry, he was thinking of a wife, as he meant to choose one of the Bennet sisters. This was his plan of lessening the wrong done to them by his being the heir to their father’s estate, and he thought it was an extremely generous one. Mr. Collins arrived punctually, and was received with great politeness by the whole Bennet family. His plan did not change on seeing them. Miss Jane Bennet’s beautiful face soon attracted him, and for the first evening she was his settled choice. In the book, after dinner, Mr. Bennet thought it was time to have some conversation with his guest. He therefore chose a subject on which he expected Mr. Collins would be pleased to speak, and began by observing that he seemed very fortunate in receiving such an excellent living from Lady Catherine. Mr. Bennet could not have thought of a better beginning. Mr. Collins praised her loudly, expressing himself in an extremely humble manner. By the tea time, however, his host had had enough, and was glad to take the young man into the drawing room and invite him to read to the ladies. Mr. Collins readily agreed, and a book was produced, but at the sight of it, he quickly drew back, and, begging pardon, declared that he never read novels. Kitty stared at him, and Lydia exclaimed in surprise. Other books were offered, and he chose a collection of writings on matters of religion. Lydia turned away as he opened the book, and before he had, in a dull voice, read three pages, she interrupted to speak to her mother. Her two eldest sisters urged her to hold her tongue, but Mr. Collins, much offended, laid the book aside.The next morning, however, caused a change, because in a quarter of an hour’s private talk with Mrs. Bennet before breakfast, he received a caution against the cousin whom he had fixed on. ‘As to her younger daughters, she could not be sure, she could not answer absolutely—but her eldest daughter, she must just mention, she felt it her duty to state, was likely to be very soon engaged to be married.’Mr. Collins had only to change from Jane to Elizabeth. It was done in a moment. Elizabeth, next to Jane both in birth and beauty, followed her as his choice, as a matter of course. Mrs. Bennet treasured up his suggestion, and trusted that she might soon have two daughters married. The man whom she could not bear to speak of the day before, was now high in her favour. In the film, during the dinner, Mr. Collins praised the cooking first, then he said: “After dinner I thought I might read to you all for an hour or two. I have with me Fordyce’s Sermons, which speak very eloquently on all matters moral.” Then he turned to Jane, and asked: ‘Are you familiar with Fordyce’s Sermons, Miss Bennet?’When the sermons were over, they were all yawning. At the same time, Mr. Collins asked for a private talk with Mrs Bennet.‘Mrs Ben