Person
Mr. Bennet
The master of Longbourn, a dry, retiring gentleman who takes refuge in his library and in laughing at his wife and the world. He is fond of Elizabeth above his other daughters for her wit, but his indolence in managing the younger girls is a fault he is slow to feel.
Chapter VII
He will not bestir himself over his wife's schemes for the girls, retreating instead to his library and his dry jokes at the family's expense.
Chapter XX
When his wife demands he order Elizabeth to accept Mr. Collins, he sides with his daughter, telling her that her mother will never see her again if she refuses and that he never will if she consents.
Chapter XXIV
He follows the Collins business and Charlotte's bargain with sardonic amusement, diverted where he might better be concerned.
Chapter XLI
Against Elizabeth's earnest warning he lets Lydia go to Brighton, judging it easier to indulge her than to govern her.
Chapter XLII
He owns to Elizabeth something of the folly of his own marriage, a caution offered too late to mend his easy ways.
Chapter XLVIII
Lydia's flight rouses him to London and to a rare, painful self-reproach for the ease he has long indulged.
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