Pride and Predjudice is one of the many examples of Jane Austen's ability to write sexual tension into her fiction without it being overt.  She never says how her characters truly feel until the words come out of the characters mouths, but she writes their actions in such a way that the reader is often left breathless in anticipation.  The main characters are always on their best behavior and never outwardly display their passions or feelings, but the reader can feel every one in their told and untold actions.  You feel what they feel without ever having to be told.  She is truly a master of showing her characters to her reader instead of telling them to the reader.

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