Pride and Prejudice - Chapters 15-16
We are introduced to one of Austen's most delightfully buffoonish characters - Mr. Collins. Marked by a profound deficiency of sense and an excessive (if unfounded) self-importance, Mr. Collins seeks to forge a reconciliation with the Longbourn family by courting one of the Bennet sisters. His clumsy pursuit of Jane, and the eventual shift in his affections towards Elizabeth, mark yet another entanglement in the web of romantic match-making that Austen so deftly weaves. Throughout this chapt...