Debra Teachman in a separate book called Understanding Pride and Prejudice: A Student Casebook to Issue, Sources, and Historical Documents, supports this claim, stating, “Darcy’s comment on the Bennet’s disadvantageous connections indicated lack of examined judgment. He reacts automatically to the situation, judging human beings on their immediate relative social and financial positions rather than looking at the moral worth of the specific individuals involved…Darcy has always been capable of judging the individual case when it is within the realm of his personal interest and influence” (Teachman, Understanding Pride and Prejudice 17-18). However, this view forgets to take into account Mrs. Reynolds’s testimony, in which she says, “I have never known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old” (Austen 281). Mr. Darcy, from the age of four, has displayed good morality, ruling out the point of his changing character, demonstrating how his morality was confused in his poor first
Debra Teachman in a separate book called Understanding Pride and Prejudice: A Student Casebook to Issue, Sources, and Historical Documents, supports this claim, stating, “Darcy’s comment on the Bennet’s disadvantageous connections indicated lack of examined judgment. He reacts automatically to the situation, judging human beings on their immediate relative social and financial positions rather than looking at the moral worth of the specific individuals involved…Darcy has always been capable of judging the individual case when it is within the realm of his personal interest and influence” (Teachman, Understanding Pride and Prejudice 17-18). However, this view forgets to take into account Mrs. Reynolds’s testimony, in which she says, “I have never known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old” (Austen 281). Mr. Darcy, from the age of four, has displayed good morality, ruling out the point of his changing character, demonstrating how his morality was confused in his poor first