I do enjoy many of the stories in which we find out couple practically perfect, and I get that it's easier to write. However, I think that I find it particularly disappointing when Elizabeth is written as a beautiful woman. I mean beautiful to everyone. At most, I feel, Austen wanted her to be pretty in a much more common sense. There's lots of pretty girls, and she's one of them. I think it should be who she is that distinguishes her from the multitude of nice faces out there. Jane was supposed to be beautiful. REALLY lovely in a Grace Kelly sort of way. However, once again her true beauty came from who she was as a sweet, trusting, kind soul, but yet Darcy barely spares her a glance. It's Elizabeth that ensnares him with her wit and intelligence, which allows him to appreciate her pretty face more than any other. I think writing her as beautiful from the get go eliminates a great deal of the romance. .
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