The chapter describing Elizabeth Bennet's visit to Pemberley is designed to flood heroine and reader with an almost overwhelming new positive vision of Darcy. From every point of view一and many are packed in一Darcy appears as a virtual model of perfection; there is nothing very subtle about Austen's treatment of the novel's turning point. In this context the descriptions of landscape acquire metaphorical resonance largely through a relatively simple scheme in which spatial terms function also as perceptual and emotional ones.