P+P #2

“‘It is wonderful,’--replied Wickham,--‘for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; --and pride has often been his best friend.” (55) Austen develops a dramatic effect to her novel. She gives her audience every reason to believe that Wickham is amiable and Mr. Darcy abominable. The reader discovers Wickham to be deceitful; everything he had pronounced Darcy to have been was false. Austen’s ability to make her audience like, or dislike, a character intensifies her novel--developing her character’s relationships in a way that is engaging to the readers.