to ask who are you in pride and Prejudice?

[tomorrowalready]

As I am watching the 1995 version on Drama and thinking I would have been cast as Mary for my teenage priggishness, pedantry, lack of social skill and personal charm, I wonder how other fine Mumsnetters would cast themselves should any other production be made however unlikely that may be.

My apologies if this has been attempted before or is a dreary New Years idea for entertainment. Naturally my curiousity extends to the male members of the cast and the lower classes who are ever with us.

Oh dear: you have just held a mirror up to me. As another Mr B, I will retreat to the library with you.

I'm definitely Lizzie. I'm an eldest child, but too sarcastic and not pretty enough to be Jane, too much the joker to be serious Mary, too bolshy to be quiet Kitty, could never have suffered a fool enough to be Charlotte. Although I've had the odd dalliance with a Wickham, have too much suspicion of men to be carried off by one like Lydia. Enjoy a good withering stare/put down at the expense of a stupid or up himself man. Don't have much respect for unwritten social rules or status earned by birth/inheritance. Probably my dad's favourite because I'm the most useful one of us, but he was equally useless parenting all of us and doesn't see it!

Mr Darcy, fairly disdainful of others and strong sense of doing the right thing.

Probably the maid.

Bingley

I'm Mrs Gardiner, the happily married and sensible aunt. Described in Spark Notes as amiable and lovable 🙂
Also I have a ridiculously histrionic sister-in-law.

Definitely Lydia sadly. Irresponsible rule breaker with terrible taste in men!

Mrs Gardiner for sure - amiable disposition, even temperament and happily married to a lovely, sensible man who has a lot of nieces! 😄

Mrs Gardener

Charlotte, definitely.

Jane. Swishes angelic head of Regency ringlets haha only kidding. Some kind of housemaid in reality who might get yelled at by Hill or maybe Mrs Bennett on a good day. Off to scrub some petticoats...brb

Just thinking that Lydia probably has ADHD and Darcy would likely get an autism diagnosis.

In my younger days I thought Charlotte fairly grasping and that she settled. Now I realise that she had very little opportunities open to her and made the very best of her lot in a gracious and elegant way.

Mr Darcy. Judgemental and struggle with expressing myself and small talk. I also hate being too hot.

I'm Sir William Lucas. Good natured, and inclined to see the good in everyone but a bit dim and with an inflated opinion of oneself.

Lizzy I think, quietly judging everyone.

Netflix is filming another adaptation of Pride and prejudice right now OP!

I’m probably Kitty, I’d like to be Lizzie but I don’t have her confidence!

I always thought Mary was probably autistic, she had very obsessive interests, lacked social awareness, came across conceited but actually was just quite to the point.

When I was younger Jane Bennet, now probably Charlotte Lucas

I’m afraid that I would have been a total Lydia.
Nowadays, I would say that I am definitely that woman Mrs Phillips from the village who comes over for a good gawp and a gossip.

Lets hope it's nothing like the abomination of an adaptation they made of Persuasion.

I'm definitely Lizzie. I'm not beautiful or considerate enough to be Jane, not silly enough to be Lydia or serious enough to be Mary. Charlotte is far too sensible.I am intelligent, outspoken, opinionated and determined.

Totally Lydia when I was young, Now absolutely Mrs Bennett, it's all about ME 😂 I have such flutterings and also know where the best warehouses are.

I would like to say Elizabeth, and I think I might briefly have been her in my 30s, but I think when in my teens and 20s I was probably Kitty. Never Mrs Bennet, she was rather stupid, a little spiteful, and an awful moan. I think now I would like to be Mrs Gardiner, with a family, a decent husband, home, and income, with regular visits to Pemberley and Lambton to look forward to.

None of them really, since I've never married and have no children. If forced to choose it would probably be Mary, since she was still unmarried at the end of the book and there was no word on what happened to her. I have read The Other Bennet Sister and it felt like wishful thinking on the part of an author who maybe identified with her and wanted to think she got a happy ending, but with at least two of her sisters making good marriages to very wealthy men, I suspect the reality would have been that an unmarriageable young woman like Mary ended up being dependent on the charity of her family - as Jane Austen herself was to some extent. Perhaps she would have been put up in a nice enough cottage on the Pemberley estate or given rooms in a distant wing of Longbourn. I don't have any siblings who've married anyone at all, let alone someone with a vast estate, so my fate would probably be closer to that of Miss Bates from Emma. I'd have to hope I was occasionally visited out of social pity and given a basket of eggs and things.