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* Lydia's eventual life as detailed in the WhereAreTheyNow epilogue is pretty sad. She waltzes into what is essentially a shotgun marriage when she's barely sixteen and believes Wickham is completely in love with her, which couldn't be further from the truth. She and her husband soon lose whatever affection they had for each other, they don't have the means to live separately and a divorce is out of the question, and they're incapable of making a stable home for themselves thanks to their overspending and fickleness, 'always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation'. Worse still, although Jane or Elizabeth will grudgingly help with their bills, none of Lydia's family (save probably her mother, and by now she's far more invested in her successfully married daughters) can bear to have her or her husband around for long. When they're first married Mr Bennet outright ''refuses'' to welcome them at Longbourn and his wife and daughters have to plead with him to let them stay. While Lydia often invites Kitty to visit her with promises of balls and young men, Kitty's always forbidden from going and later grows to much prefer the company of her two eldest sisters. Wickham isn't ever allowed at Pemberley, although Lydia is permitted to visit without him (during which Wickham goes to [[TheGamblingAddict 'enjoy]] [[TheHedonist himself']] in London or Bath). And when the Wickhams go to stay with Jane and Bingley, the couple ''always'' outstay their welcome and strain the sisters' relationship ever further. It's small wonder that adaptations now often prefer to change Lydia's fate in the story.
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* Lydia's eventual life as detailed in the WhereAreTheyNow epilogue is pretty sad. She waltzes into what is essentially a shotgun marriage when she's barely sixteen and believes Wickham is completely in love with her, which couldn't be further from the truth. She and her husband soon lose whatever affection they had for each other, they don't have the means to live separately in separate households and a divorce is out of the question, and they're incapable of making a stable home for themselves thanks to their overspending and fickleness, 'always moving from place to place in quest of a cheap situation'. Worse still, although Jane or Elizabeth will grudgingly help with their bills, none of Lydia's family (save probably her mother, and by now she's far more invested in her successfully married daughters) can bear to have her or her husband around for long. When they're first married Mr Bennet outright ''refuses'' to welcome them at Longbourn and his wife and daughters have to plead with him to let them stay. While Lydia often invites Kitty to visit her with promises of balls and young men, Kitty's always forbidden from going and later grows to much prefer the company of her two eldest sisters. Wickham isn't ever allowed at Pemberley, although Lydia is permitted to visit without him (during which Wickham goes to [[TheGamblingAddict 'enjoy]] [[TheHedonist himself']] in London or Bath). And when the Wickhams go to stay with Jane and Bingley, the couple ''always'' outstay their welcome and strain the sisters' relationship ever further. It's small wonder that adaptations now often prefer to change Lydia's fate in the story.
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* In Mr. Bennet's reaction to Elizabeth's engagement to Darcy, he drops the snarky mask and we get a peek of the regret he carries around with him. It's hard to decide what's sadder - Mr. Bennet's unhappiness or the knowledge that Mrs. Bennet has to live with a husband who doesn't value her at all, and likely knows.
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* In Mr. Bennet's reaction to Elizabeth's engagement to Darcy, he drops the snarky mask and we get a peek of the regret he carries around with him. It's hard to decide what's sadder - Mr. Bennet's unhappiness or the knowledge that Mrs. Bennet has to live with a husband who doesn't value her at all, and likely knows.all.
