In Billy Joel’s 1977 song, “The Stranger,” Joel sings of the deep, hidden truth within a person. “Well we all have a face, that we hide away forever,” and Darcy is no exception. He hides himself with a guise that portrays himself as prideful and arrogant, when he is really just very shy. Joel writes of a time when he couldn’t recognize his significant other because he has never seen her true self before. This is similar to how Elizabeth Bennet feels when she sees Darcy at Pemberely: she sees that he is generous and kind to his staff. She does not recognize Darcy’s mannerisms, and she realizes that her assumptions of him were false.