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Does Curtis Sittenfeld hate Pride and Prejudice? Does she want us to hate Pride and Prejudice? I don't think the answer is yes because of her afterword and because Romantic Comedy seems modeled on P&P. But in her retelling, all the characters are pretty unbearable and it almost feels like her attempt to translate the characters and situations to today's touchpoints (or at least the today of 2013) was for us to understand that the characters are actually all spoiled and petty and unsympathetic.

Sittenfeld's retelling was not a 1:1 translation, and that was probably for the best, but I felt like some of her changes made sense and some did not. It made sense to me that Jane / Lizzy would be in their late 30s to convey their "old maid" status. It made sense to set the sisters' home in Cincinnati, and to have characters go off to New York, Texas, and California - America is huge and traveling between those places is not a casual undertaking and that helps us understand how Jane going off to her aunt's or Charlotte going off with Collins was truly so far away.

But a lot of the other choices were just weird, and kind of tone-deaf, and generally unpleasant.