Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the main characters of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, hate each other when they first meet but by the end of the novel are happily married . Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist, develops through her interactions with antithetical characters: the sisters and the mother. Mr. Darcy develops through the events of the novel, his friends, and the Bennet family. Society's point of view creates irony and other contrasts that help bring the novel to its climatic ending. Jane Austen is a very reclusive writer. Who is known for hiding her work when interrupted, because she didn't want anyone to know she was a novelist. She also didn't want anyone to see her work until it was finished ("Jane" 232). Jane Austen never married, historians believe it was because of a broken heart, but her books are romance novels. His inspiration for his novels like Pride and Prejudice comes from everyday life. She wrote in the family living room while life happened around her; thus, his novels do not depict a fantastic or utopian family but an everyday family. Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-one, but had difficulty finding a publisher. Because it was one of the first novels to deal with an entire family (Anderson 233), it took sixteen years before it was published. Her family helped her edit and polish Pride and Prejudice; they read it aloud every weeknight, then read part of another book. Through the other books, she saw how to improve her own writing, for example by adding "a 'he said' or a 'she said' sometimes made the dialogue more immediately clear" (Copeland 49-50). A major change she made to the book was the title, which was originally First Impressions. First printings underwent revision...... middle of paper ......sics for Christians. Ed. Jan Anderson and Laurel Hicks. Pensacola: Pensacola Christian College, 1997. 232. Print. “Literary Criticism of Pride and Prejudice”. Pride and prejudice. Np, mdWeb. February 22, 2014. Magill, Frank N., ed. “Pride and Prejudice.” Masterpieces of world literature. New York, New York: Harper and Row, 728-32. Print. Murphy, Bruce, ed. “Pride and Prejudice.” Benet Reader's Encyclopedia. 4th ed. New York, New York: Harper Collins, 1996. 828-29. Print. Rubinstein, E., ed. Interpretations of Pride and Prejudice in the Twentieth Century. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1969. Print. “Symbolic Motifs and “Conversation Sunes”. » Pride and prejudice: a study in artistic economics. Kenneth L. Moler. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. 50-62. Twayne Masterpiece Studies 21. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. February 4. 2014.