How did Mr.Darcy propose to Elizabeth?
In the novel pride and prejudice
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The first proposal, the amusing and horrible one, occurred in the Hunsford Parsonage while he was visiting his aunt at Rosings Park.
The first proposal, the amusing and horrible one, occurred in the Hunsford Parsonage while he was visiting his aunt at Rosings Park.The second proposal, wasn't a direct question. It occurred on a lane near Longbourn as he was walking with Elizabeth. He asked if her feelings were the same, because his had not changed, then let him know so he could be silent on the subject forever. So it wasn't really a proposal, but it counts.
When Darcy proposes for the first time, he does so in such an arrogant and insulting way that Elizabeth is furious. Her response to him is essentially that she wouldn't marry him if were the last man on earth.
He first insults her by saying he, the great Darcy, is willing to take her on despite all the ways he is better than her and her family:
His sense of her inferiority—of its being a degradation—of the family obstacles which had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth . . .
We learn that any compassion Elizabeth might have felt at saying no to him is lost in anger at his words. Her anger raises to a pitch of fury when he admits he did what he could to separate Jane and Bingley:
"I have no wish of denying that I did everything in my power to separate my friend from your sister, or that I rejoice in my success. Towards him I have been kinder than towards myself."
Elizabeth also dwells on Darcy's treatment of Wickham and on her observations of his arrogance from the first time she laid eyes on him. She says:
"I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
Of course, her feelings will change, and by the second time he proposes, she is more than happy to say yes to him.