Answer the following Q's for Ch. 15-18. Please use quotes from the book (with page #'s!) wherever possible to support your answers.
1. There is a fine line sometimes between being a character and being a caricature. Which one is Mr. Collins turning out to be? Explain with examples from the text.
2. Good readers recognize ambiguities. What occurs when Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham meet on the street in Meryton? What narrative choices does Jane Austen make to underscore the idea that this is a significant ambiguity that will matter later in the story?
3. Dancing with Darcy (!). That's certainly not what Lizzy had in mind when "[before the Netherfield ball] she had dressed with more than usual care, and prepared in highest spirits" (Ch. 18). In their tense and awkward attempts at conversation while dancing, what topic does Darcy himself bring up? Why is he interested in this topic? What earlier conversations does it relate to in the novel?
4. Mr. Collins literally walks right up to Mr. Darcy and introduces himself. Lizzy is -- for the zillionth time in this novel -- mortified. Aside from Lizzy's own protests to try to talk him out of such an action, what details from this scene does Jane Austen give us to show that such a self-introduction is considered inappropriate in the world of this novel?
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