Elizabeth neglects and ignores Mary.
If this is the case, then why is Mary apparently eager to show her and Jane everything that she's been up to the moment they get back from Netherfield, evidently in the full confidence that they will listen to her ("They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to")?
Where, for that matter, is even one piece of evidence in the text that Mary is particularly ignored by anybody?
Elizabeth never tries to guide or discipline Kitty and Lydia.
Yes, she quite literally does ("Elizabeth had frequently united with Jane in an endeavour to check the imprudence of Catherine and Lydia; but while they were supported by their mother’s indulgence, what chance could there be of improvement?").
Elizabeth thinks she's better than Jane, like when she says "I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."
I'm going to need you to go to the dictionary and look up the word "joke" for me.
Elizabeth is a gold-digger, like how she loved Darcy after "first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."
The point here is that seeing Pemberley gave her a better idea of him as a prudent, responsible, tasteful, unextravagant, conscientious man—it isn't just that he owns a lot of stuff.
You cannot convince me that if you found out you had passed up the chance to live amongst every possible comfort and beauty of architecture and nature for the rest of your life, you wouldn't briefly be like "oh damn"
I'm going to need you to go to the dictionary and look up the word "joke" for me.
Elizabeth thinks she's a better judge of character and circumstances than Jane is.
Perhaps at the beginning of the book. Later, she castigates herself for having "disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameless distrust."
Jane doubted Wickham's story about Darcy, not because she could discern that he was a liar, or that there was something suspicious about the story, but because she would deny the truth of any story that alleged that anybody had done something wrong. I can't see that "nobody would really do that! just go to aunt Phillips's and lie!" is a good read on the situation, and in fact her opinion does not end up being correct (Darcy has not been misrepresented to Wickham by interested parties, nor was their mutual dislike occasioned by any kind of mistake).
Elizabeth doesn't listen to Miss Bingley's advice about Darcy and Wickham, even though Miss Bingley has been his close friend forever, and she doesn't know him at all.
You mean the bit where Miss Bingley said "I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this discovery of your favourite’s guilt; but really, considering his descent, one could not expect much better"? That's the advice that you think Elizabeth should have listened to? That? That's the advice? That's the advice she's at fault for disregarding? That advice?
Elizabeth is a pick-me when she says “I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.”
I feel like you've got to be white because this is not a usage of the term "pick-me" that is conversant with its origins.
Elizabeth saying that she doubts the existence of this uber-"accomplished" woman only counts as dissing other women if you agree with Miss Bingley's implication that women's worth and value lies in whether or not they tick off various skills on a list of "accomplishments." Aka you have missed the point of this scene.
Whom, exactly, does Elizabeth want to "pick" her? Can you tell me that? What man, in this room, is Elizabeth trying to attract right now? Is it Mr. Hurst? Is it Mr. Bingley? I'm sure you can't possibly think it's Mr. Darcy. Perhaps it's one of the footmen.
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