ABSTRACT
Telling the hidden secret. Revealing the truth at the bottom of one's heart. And this telling of the truth can be a crack in the shell. An opening in the pretense. A chance for someone to be real and vulnerable and therefore loved. In Bridget Jones's Diary, the scene where Mark Darcy comes down the stairs to talk to Bridget, after the horrifically awful couples' dinner party, uses just this crack of honesty to good effect. Mark tells Bridget the truth. Quite a lot of truth actually. In the original story of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's novel, on which Bridget is based, it is the truth that changes Lizzie's feelings toward the original Mr. Darcy as well. In the same way as both of the above scenes. Honesty can be an opening. A crack in the heart that allows love to pour into it.
