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In the beginning of
Pride and Prejudice, every girl in the surrounding area is overcome with excitement at the thought of Mr. Bingley, an unmarried man with the sizable annual income of 5,000 pounds a year coming to stay at the estate of Netherfield. However, when he is first met by general society at the village ball, it is brought to everyone's attention that his companion, Mr. Darcy is worth at least twice that sum and he becomes the new highly sought after man. Shortly, he is dismissed as much too prideful and haughty, but as the novel progresses, he is shown in more and more of an agreeable light, until both Elizabeth Bennett and the reader are hopelessly in love with him. Jane Austen is somehow able to brilliantly bring to life this man in her writing to the point that according to Ashley Tauchert,
"Mr Darcy emerged triumphant, as if from Pemberley lake in a wet shirt, in a recent BBC vote to find [himself] the most fancied fictional figure of women's desire—leaving James Bond and all his bedroom skills and gadgets in second place" (Tauchert). Women everywhere wish they could find someone in real life like Mr. Darcy.
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