The story starts with arrival of a handsome and young eligible bachelor Charles Bingley in neighbourhood of the family of Bennett's comprising five sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty & Lydia and their parents. Mr. Bennett is an intelligent and witty but indolent man who likes to derive pleasure from everything that's ridiculous in his surroundings while Mrs. Bennet is a silly and fretful woman with the sole aim of her life being the marriage of her daughters.