[dsc]

"Actually that would be Mr Darcy. Lizzie's problem is prejudice."

How did I know you would be wrong about that? Lucky guess, or just picking up on a pattern?

"In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the issue of pride is a central one. Both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are disliked at separate points for their pride--Darcy is described towards the beginning as the "proudest, most disagreeable man in the world (p.7)." At one point Miss Bingley says to Darcy, about Elizabeth, to "endeavor to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses." She is referred to as having an "abomidable sort of conceited independance" (p.26); her manners are described by the others as "very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence"

[Oztrich Boy]

In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the issue of pride is a central one

Well one of the themes is how pride and prejudice may be mistaken for the other by casual observers.

And you are quoting not the views of the author, but those of her characters, which is not the same thing.

In particular, you citing as authoriry Miss Bingley, who is not presented by Austen as the most astute of observers, is exceedingly riaky.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

At one point Miss Bingley says to Darcy, about Elizabeth, to "endeavor to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses." She is referred to as having an "abomidable sort of conceited independance" (p.26); her manners are described by the others as "very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence"

Yes, and Miss Bingley was portrayed by the author as a nitwit and a b*tch. Character assassinations of the heroine by an antagonist are not to be relied upon. I concur that Elizabeth's issue was prejudice, not pride.