D.W. Harding - Pride and Prejudice

D.W. Hardings argument is that labeling Pride and Prejudice as a satire is not completely accurate. Her work is more about getting along with the readers as well as creating caricatures. She makes her characters have aspects of their lives that are bigger than they really are. For example, you could relate this to a cartoonist looking at their model but then making the head look bigger than it appears. A lot of Austen’s characters that she brings into the story act as “foils.” I agree and disagree with what D.W. Harding is saying. In one way, there is over exaggeration but in another there is also satire. It just depends on how you want to label it.