The Comparison of the "first impression" of Mr. Darcy and his real characteristic
     The "First Impression" of a person is very important for us to judge a person if he is good or not.  We usually will keep the consistence of our mind about a person.  But sometimes we will change our judgement at the first sight of a person after observing or talk to him.  In Pride & Prejudice, they all will have their first impressions of their own about the others and in fact their impressions of a person is not totally what he is.  So some of them who are more sensitive will find that there are differences between the first impression and the real of that person.  They change their mind and even attitude towards a person then.

 We first know the character Darcy at the first ball in the story.  Darcy is Mr. Bingley' s friend.  He got everyone' s attention when he first got to the ball.  He had not only a very attractive appearance but also a noble or gentleman liked behavior.  Everyone says that he is very good man and his was also famous of his fortune.  He seemed to be the ideal man of marriage.

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"…..but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien; and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year.  The gentlemen pronounced him to be a f fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration….."

 But the others changed their mind because of his manner and what he said to the other.  He then immediately became a very disgusting and unwellcoming person.  He danced only once with Mrs. Hurst and once with Miss Bingley.  This let Mrs. Bennet dislike him because she thought that he had slighted one of her daughters.  His character was decided to be the proudest one.
 

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"…his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend."

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"…He was the Proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again.  Amongst the most violent against him was Mrs. Bennet…."

 We find that he was a so disagreeable man in other' s point of view, but we can also know something totally difference with his image at first to the people in the ball.  From the time of Mr. Darcy was writing a letter to his sister, Miss Darcy, we can know that he was in fact no very proud indeed and he dealed with his sister with a very tender attitude.  The content of the letter showed his true honesty and what he said to Miss Bingley showed a little of his modesty.

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" ……'OH! It is of no consequence.  I shall see her in January.  But do you always write such charming long letters to her, Mr. Darcy?'
     'They are generally long; but whether always charming, it is not for me to determine.'……."

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"….'My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them-by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas a all to my correspondents.'…."


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