Choose a main character from Pride and Prejudice and describe his or her speech and tell what it reveals about his or her personality.

The novel's protagonist and the second oldest of her five sisters, Elizabeth Bennet is lively, quick-witted, sharp-tongued, bold and intelligent. She is keen and perceptive, but Elizabeth's pride in that very ability engenders a prejudice that almost hinders her happy future with Darcy. Elizabeth is not impressed by mere wealth or titles, rather, she values propriety, good-manners, and virtue. When Lady Catherine has tells Elizabeth exactly why she's not worthy to marry Darcy, Elizabeth fills her in on exactly why she is certainly worthy, "In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."