"'Pride,' observed Mary...'is a very common failing, I believe...Vanity and pride are different things...A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us'"(21).
Jane Austen included this line in her book, Pride and Prejudice, to set the tone for the rest of the novel. Austen has Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy making false accusations at one another because they are trying to portray themselves as something they are not. By behaving in a false manner, they ended up pushing each other away. After they discovered the truth about each other, they were then brought back together because their pride and vanity no longer mattered. The statement of pride and vanity are demonstrated throughout the entire novel, so by having this quote near the beginning of the novel, it helped the reader to comprehend the hidden messages of what was really going on throughout the book.
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