[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.

[dsc]

"Pride and prejudice are intimately related in the novel. As critic A. Walton Litz comments, "in Pride and Prejudice one cannot equate Darcy with Pride, or Elizabeth with Prejudice; Darcy's pride of place is founded on social prejudice, while Elizabeth's initial prejudice against him is rooted in pride of her own quick perceptions."