Window into the unoticed Part 1

I wrote this a while back and I don't know if there will ever be a part two. I started thinking recently about Mary from the movie Pride and Predjudice. Why is it that she always seems so melancholy and walled off from people? Mary seems isolated and alone. I almost wonder though if this has become a pattern for her because it is what she has experienced for most of her life. Look at her family, everyone has someone or is part of a pair. Jane and Lizzie seem to have a deep and special bond. Kitty and Lydia, though they fight, seem to have many things in common and are almost always together. Then her parents are of course a pair even though Mrs. Bennet is well.... you know. So Mary really has no one to identify with and has no friends. She has had to adapt to doing things that do not require other people like reading. As I watched the movie again another thought occurred to me, no one seems to value Mary or what she is interested in. This is highlighted at the party given by the Lucas’. Mary is playing the music she enjoys playing and Lydia demands she plays something else. This is isn’t a big deal, it is how her mother reacts that shows that no one values her. She petitions her mother for help and does her mother try to compromise? No she says “Oh, play a jig, Mary. No one wants your concertos here.” Essentially saying, "Hey no one cares what kind of music you like, shut up and play something so I don’t have to deal with you or your sister." How many years has Mary heard things like this? How many years has she been pushed aside? I think the reason she has taken to being a “philosopher” is because it is the only way she can deal with the rejection. She just tries to rationalize it away. All of the off the wall or untimely things she says is because she is trying to connect but really does not know how.