I too thought about how many things are still the same today - for instance, teenage girls falling easily into a silly friendship that seems more important to one than to the other.

Also, the misjudgment young men and women tend to show when evaluating the other sex - James Morland described Isabella: "she has so much good sense, and is so thoroughly unaffected and amiable"! This is just after she had been staring after other young men (the very one's she cared nothing about in the pump room), and in Chpt 8 at the ball she was very inconstant in her decision to stay with Catherine (just a few examples of behavior that show she is almost the exact opposite of what James-and Catherine, for that matter-thinks she is).