The Bennet sisters are all in search of love, but their mother had a different idea. Mrs. Bennet's idea of marrying well is that the girls find a respectable young man who is wealthy. The day of the ball at Netherfield makes all the girls in town very excited to meet Mr. Bingley, a young, good looking, and not to mention rich man, hoping that he will pay special attention to them. Everyone begins to assume that he is attracted to one of the Bennet sisters, Jane, because he asked her to dance twice with him, which was a big deal for them. Even though Mr. Bingley was having a good time at the ball, his friend Darcy, another gentleman, feels out of place and superior to the people there because they are not as wealthy as he is. At first Elizabeth is not pleased with Darcy and uses her preconceptions of him against him; however she soon realizes that she was being prejudice towards him and that she was too prideful not to know that he actually wanted to marry her. In the middle of all the drama, Charlotte who is one of Elizabeth’s good friends marries Mr. Collins who is the heir of the Bennet home. Lydia, one of the younger sisters elopes with Wickham who is an army officer, then marries him after Mr. Bingley paid for Wickhams debts and secured them an amount of ten thousand pounds. After all the confusion and dilemmas faced by each of the Bennet sisters and the two friends, Jane marries Mr. Bingley and Elizabeth marries Darcy. The point of the story being that sometimes social class differences, as was the case between Darcy and Elizabeth, blur the line between marrying for love and marrying for social status.
