Ch. 3 of Cambridge Comparison

I learned that Jane Austen makes her characters, espically her women characters strong. Elizabeth is a strong woman character. Her mother and her sisters play a big role on how she views women. Her mother is a little crazy and always in her daughter's business. Her father, Mr. Bennett, was passive when it came to her mother. How Mr. Darcy is towards Elizabeth is how Austen incorporates gender and power into the novel. Mr. Darcy is a well-off man and he knows that he has a great amount of power. He can control a lot of things, like how he made Mr. Bingley end his relationship with Jane, Elizabeth's sister, because he thought that she was indifferent to him. Mr. Darcy has a lot of power of his friends and over Elizabeth to begin with, but Elizabeth is a strong female character and she can take care of herself. We basically learned that Mr.Darcy has power and to an extent so does Elizabeth when she turns down the proposal of Mr. Collins. We also know that Lady Catherine has power of Mr. Collins and she is protective of Mr. Darcy because she wants her daughter to marry him. Money is a big determining factor for power, the Bennett family is poor and they have less power that Mr. Darcy.