"But when this subject was succeeded by his account of Mr. Wickham, when [Elizabeth] read with somewhat clearer attention, a relation of events, which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarmingly an affinity to his own history of himself, her feelings were yet more accutely painful and more difficult of definition... When she had gone through the whole letter, though scarcely knowing anything of the last page or two, put it hastily away, protesting that she would not regard it, that she would never look at it again" (Austen 173-174)
Ms. Elizabeth Bennet has finally learned Mr. Darcy's side of the Darcy-Wickham story, and she does not know who to believe (at first). However, because she has such a huge prejudice against Mr. Darcy, not just for his mannerisms but for the fact that he ruined her sister's felicity, she will not believe what he has written. She thinks so ill of Darcy right now, that she cannot even begin to believe that Wickham, who seemed like such an amiable person, would try to elope with Georgiana Darcy for her fortune. Elizabeth finely displays her big flaw as a character, and the one reason she needs to round out: she has too much prejudice where her opinion never falters no matter what. Darcy declared his love, was rejected, and tried to fill her in on his life, and yet she can't believe him just because of her opinion of him. The good thing is that after this display of impertinence, she seems to let up on Darcy and thinks it's possible Darcy's telling the truth. It will certainly be interesting to see whether she'll ever forgive him.
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