Pride and Prejudice: The Summary Pride and Prejudice opens in the home of an English family, the Bennets, in the eighteenth century. As the story unfolds we find out that Charles Bingley, a rich, young, single gentleman is moving into Netherfield, near the Bennets. Mrs. Bennet decides that he will marry one of her five daughters. The daughters meet Bingley at the Meryton ball. Accompanying him to the ball is another young gentleman, his two sisters, and the eldest sister’s husband. The young gentleman is Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy who seems quite disagreeable on first impressions. When requested by Bingley to dance with Jane’s sister Elizabeth, he says within earshot of her that sh