Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 3 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 3
Pride and Prejudice. English-only reading by default; switch among English, Chinese, and Spanish, or compare languages side by side.
Chapter summary
This chapter advances the novel’s social and emotional action around Chapter 3, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. They attacked him in various ways, with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all; and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbour, Lady Lucas.
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 3 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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