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He gives her good reasons for wanting to marry in general and her specifically.

But it's not really a question.

Without taking more than a breath, he lists the reasons he's asking.

Lady Catherine being reasons number one through 17.

And then starts talking as if Lizzie has said yes, even though she hasn't.

In fact, she says a very firm no, which is when Mr. Collins' proposal goes from being

funny to something else.

People joke that there are components of Austin's novels that are nearly horror.

Austin courted this idea too.

Her first novel, North Anger Abbey, is a gothic novel that compares being trapped into

marriage with being haunted in an old house.

Austin's novels never have supernatural elements, but she definitely plays with genre.

And this proposal scene between Collins and Lizzie, to me at least, is the horror scene

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