I have realized that Wickham is a manipulative snake who is not to be trusted, who will go wherever money takes him. In one of the letters Jane wrote to Elizabeth, she exposed Wickham’s plans to “[not] marry Lydia at all.” (266) When Elizabeth runs into Darcy and relays the situation to him she argues“When my eyes were open to his real character. Oh! Had I know what I ought, what I dared to do! But I knew not--I was afraid of doing too much. Wretched, wretched mistake!” (296) Elizabeth regrets not exposing Wickham for the fraud he is for the sake of her family’s reputation. Relating to your earlier journal regarding Mrs. Bennett’s inappropriate behavior, she again seems to be acting up upon learning of Lydia’s elopement with no intention to marry, “blaming every body but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must be principally owing.”(278) As Mr. Bennett and Mr. Gardiner continue looking for the couple, I could not help but notice the motive was for the sake of not ruining the family reputation, not because the family is concerned about Lydia’s health and well being for marrying someone who does not love her back equally. …show more content…
Bennett is concerned about Lydia marrying so “she should be able to show her married daughter in the neighborhood, before she was banished to the north.” (303) Finding out how Wickham is offering to marry Lydia if a sum of money is paid to him is a great reflection of this book’s