Liz Bennet

Liz Bennet is the protagonist of Eligible. The second eldest of the five Bennet sisters, Liz is depicted as being the most intelligent and practical of all of her sisters, but is not without flaws of her own. The first of Liz’s main character flaws is her tendency to jump to negative conclusions about other people on the basis of very little information (the prejudice half of the source material’s title). The second is her inability to apply the intelligence and common sense which she applies to her professional life to the questions she is presented with in her romantic life.

Liz allows her first impression of others to guide her in her opinion of them, staunchly standing by her initial prejudices even as evidence starts to appear to the contrary. Nowhere is this more true than in her relationship with Jasper Wick. Liz always...