It is an established fact that jane austen is one of the most prominent and towering personalities who contributed to the development of English fiction in the history of English literature. Though she wrote during the romantic period but in her novels, we come across an air of realism which is the hallmark of her fictional writings. In her novels, the male-female antagonism is the the pivot and around this concept all of her incidents revolve. The male- female antagonism in her novels is the result of certain lack of judgement and misunderstanding that arise between different characters in the development of plot.