I found Susan Fraiman's critical essay, "The Humiliation of Elizabeth Bennett," particularly illuminating and a very satisfying read. Something about Elizabeth's character struck me as inauthentic the moment she read Mr. Darcy's letter. Perhaps, it was my own desire to see her not be a submissive and passive character in her own narrative, but rather to hold on to her own convictions and, if anything, approach Mr. Darcy on the same level. Moreover, she does not have to own that she has been "prejudice," as Fraiman astutely observes, but rather Elizabeth could have owned that their was certainly more to Mr. Darcy's narrative, but that he has some fault - particularly in regards to his own pride - that goes without turning a blind eye to or brushing