Recognizing When Pride Masks Vulnerability
When Pride Becomes Armor
Darcy finds Elizabeth alone at the parsonage and walks in without warning. Silence forces her to raise Bingley's sudden departure; he gives the briefest answers. When he hints she cannot bear to leave Hertfordshire, he draws his chair closer—then pulls back and takes up a newspaper.
Key Insight
Vulnerability often looks like clumsiness before it looks like honesty. Darcy's visit is not the polished performance of Rosings—it is a man trying to reach someone while his pride keeps pulling him back into reserve.
