Who it is for
Readers following character development, social satire, and the changing relationships around Chapter 15 will find this chapter especially useful.
English reader · Project Gutenberg #1342
Chapter 15
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 15, using dialogue, family expectations, and manners to reveal character motives and relationships. Its opening movement begins: Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms without forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had brought him up had given
Modern reader note
Read this chapter in its Regency social context. Courtship, inheritance, gender expectations, class manners, and family authority around Chapter 15 reflect the novel’s historical world rather than present-day norms.
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