On top of that, she hears from her friend (also Darcy’s mortal enemy), Mr. First of all, Lizzy already hates Darcy because she finds him aloof and condescending. Lizzy and Darcy have their impressions of each other in a twist. And since our brains are great at ignoring information we think is false then reinterpreting it to fit into what we think is true, we know that it is extremely challenging to overcome a negative impression (Smith). Your new colleague would most likely assume that you're below-average conduct is pretty much who you are as a person instead of hearing out an explanation. Somehow, you’re not yourself so you do something out of line, and there, you’ve just made a bad impression. Maybe your significant other just broke up with you or you are experiencing a death in your family. You might be having a bad day or you didn’t get your morning cup of coffee. Their mutual bad first impressions result from their own pride and prejudice that nearly destroys their friendship.
Clearly, no good first impressions were made that day. “I quite detest the man,” she adds (Austen 8). Darcy’s remarks about Lizzy completely hurt her pride and so she declares that Darcy is the “most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing”. Prompted by his own prejudice against those with less money or of a lower class, the first words Darcy says about Lizzy are “She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me” (Austen 7). At the ball, she overhears a conversation between Bingley and Darcy. Women today would probably be calling him a pompous jerk which explains why Lizzy Bennet’s first encounter with Darcy is not the most pleasant. “His manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity for he was discovered to be proud to be above his company, and above being pleased and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend” (Austen 6).
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