Swipe Left on Mr. Darcy — It's Complicated, Page 8
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Transcript
Character card on a plain drab grey-lilac backdrop. Mr. Collins — 35, soft doughy build, faint sweaty sheen, combed-over thinning hair, a cheap shiny slate-grey suit a size too tight, a lilac shirt, a loud oversized patterned tie, a pocket square, a smartwatch and a blank lanyard badge — leans forward eagerly with both hands clasped at his chest and a too-wide toothy smile. Pompous, obsequious, and utterly unable to read a room. Caption: 'MR. COLLINS — COURTSHIP AS A SALES PITCH'
Image description
Full-figure character card of Mr. Collins in a tight slate-grey suit and loud tie, hands clasped with a too-wide smile, on a grey-lilac backdrop; caption 'MR. COLLINS — COURTSHIP AS A SALES PITCH'.
About this chapter
A bonus cast-guide interlude: a clean character-card lineup of everyone in Lizzie Bennet's tangled orbit as of the Ms. de Bourgh estate visit. One portrait per principal with their name and their essence in a single caption — Lizzie the sharp, unbowed protagonist; Darcy the cold man slowly thawing; Jane and Charles, the right people with the wrong timing; George Wickham, warm smile and cold read; Caroline Bingley, insults gift-wrapped; Charlotte Lucas, who chose a roof over butterflies; Mr. Collins, who treats courtship like a sales pitch; the newly arrived Ms. de Bourgh on her throne; and the whole Bennet household — five daughters and one mission. A quick who's-who for new readers and a midpoint snapshot of the whole board before the story turns.