Chapter 3 of the Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen- 1/24

What I learned about Pride and Prejudice is that Jane Austen tried to make her novels like a play. She used theatricality with certain characters to create more interest in her story. She uses Elizabeth's struggle to find the truth of people's characters just like an audience can misinterpret a lines spoken in a play. Austen creates characters of whom the reader can relate to and and gives each character a "role" like an actor would receive for a play.