Elizabeth Bennet: Protagonist of the story and second eldest of the Bennet sisters, Elizabeth is smart, prideful, and sharp-tongued. Lizzy speaks her mind and is on the edge of being rude. She has a lot of pride and vanity in herself and finds it hard to get over first impressions of people. She is able to perceive who people really are and what their intentions are, but this talent doesn’t get her very far with Darcy. Her vanity doesn’t allow her to see the truth in Darcy and that he really loved her. She thought Darcy was arrogant due to his wealth, which she wasn’t impressed with.
Jane Bennet: She is considered to be the prettiest of the Bennet sisters. She is amiable, sweet, and humble, making her easy to like. Her optimistic attitude makes her family calm down when Lydia runs away with Wickham. She is always giving people the benefit of the doubt like she did with Caroline who she thought was her friend but only helped in separating Bingley and her. She falls in love with Mr. Bingley and ends up marrying him.
Charles Bingley: Rich and single young man who is mostly indifferent to social class, making it one of the reasons why he fell in love with Jane. Like Jane, he is amiable and modest but is easily influenced by Darcy’s advice not to marry Jane. He is much more sociable than Darcy, but is scared off by Mrs. Bennet’s insistence on the marriage between Jane and him.
Mr. Darcy: First impressions of Darcy are that he is arrogant, prideful, and very class conscious. But he had a reason to be proud, he was wealthy and good looking. However, later in the novel we see that he is generous and becomes less class conscious as his love for Elizabeth grows and he tries to win her over.
