Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the main characters of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, hate each other at their first meeting but at the end of the novel they are happily married . Elizabeth Bennet, protagonist, develops through her interactions with antithetical characters: sisters and mother. Mr. Darcy develops through the events of the novel, his friends and the Bennet family. The view of society creates irony and further contrasts that help bring the novel to its climactic ending. Jane Austen is a very solitary writer. She is known to hide her work if interrupted, because she didn't want anyone to know she was a writer. He also didn't want anyone to see his work until it was completed (“Jane” 232). Jane Austen never married, according to historians due to a broken heart, yet her books are romance novels. His inspiration for his novels such as Pride and Prejudice came from everyday life. She wrote in the family living room while life went by around her; therefore, his novels do not describe a fantastic or utopian family, but an everyday family. Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-one, but struggled to find a publisher. Because it was one of the first novels to deal with an entire family (Anderson 233), sixteen years passed before it was published. Her family helped her edit and refine Pride and Prejudice; they read it aloud every night of the week and then read part of another book. Through other books he saw how to improve his writing, for example adding “a 'he said' or a 'she said' sometimes made the dialogue more immediately clear” (Copeland 49-50). One major change he made to the book was the title, which was originally First Impressions. First impressions revised......middle of paper......sics for Christians. Ed. Jan Anderson and Laurel Hicks. Pensacola: Pensacola Christian College, 1997. 232. Print. "Literary Criticism of Pride and Prejudice." Pride and prejudice. Np, MD Web. 22 February 2014. Magill, Frank N., ed. “Pride and Prejudice”. Masterpieces of world literature. New York, NY: Harper and Row, 728-32. Print.Murphy, Bruce, ed. “Pride and Prejudice”. Benet Reader's Encyclopedia. 4th ed. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1996. 828-29. Print.Rubinstein, E., ed. Twentieth-century interpretations of pride and prejudice. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1969. Print. "Symbolic Motifs and 'Conversation Sunes'." Pride and Prejudice: A Study in the Arts Economy. Keneth L. Moler. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. 50-62. Studies of Twayne's Masterpieces 21. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Network. February 4. 2014.