<human>:  Why does Mr. Darcy tell Elizabeth that he is not a handsome man in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Pre?
<bot>: Mr. Darcy is a proud man and he is trying to impress Elizabeth. He thinks that by telling her that he is not a handsome man, she will think that he is a good man. He wants to show her that he is not the shallow man that she might think him to be.