Status Updates From Mr Darcy's Quizzing Glass: ...

Everyone talks about Darcy’s fabled quizzing glass, even though he didn’t take it to Hertfordshire and many have never seen it.

In London Elizabeth finds out the magic of this object — she is very mad that Darcy relies on it to judge people, and she also very mad that he didn’t use the object on Meryton population because that was superior & judgemental. She can’t have it both ways !!

Almost halfway into the story and Darcy & Elizabeth have not have any major interaction, it’s just Darcy looking at Elizabeth’s mystery glow and rushing away from her, as she loudly and sarcastically mocks him — it’s like a crass parody of the real P&P, like cross-dressing British Pantomine actors playing Lizzy and Darcy in a bad street performance of Pride and Prejudice…

The tone of the story is very strange so far >> the past set-up for George Darcy & the quizzing glass was ok; but then Darcy’s use of it is sloppy and random in the context of the story.

The start of the action in Meryton is counter-intuitive: the whole purpose of writing a story about a magical monocle is to re-write & affect events, and Darcy here leaves it back in London, and still calls Lizzy “tolerable” !