Lydia
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- Lydia
- We feel a little sympathy for Lydia, but it's hard. She's "untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless".
- She doesn't learn her lesson about Wickham, returning to Longbourn with the same "easy assurance" she had before she ran off with such a disreputable man who had to be paid off to marry her.
- She flirts with anything in a uniform; she spends all her money and makes her sisters lend her cash so she can buy them dinner; and she only stops talking about boys to look at a "very smart bonnet ... or a really new muslin in a shop window"
- Lydia is only fifteen, and she's been raised by a woman who is exactly like her, and neglected by a man who couldn't care less.
- There was a whole etiquette about when women were allowed to "come out," meaning show themselves off in public as eligible for marriage. This was usually around the age of 17 or 18, and a lot of times a younger would have to wait until her older sister(s) were married—partly so they wouldn't be competing for the same dudes, and also partly because it was expensive to dress a girl for balls.
- Lady Catherine actually criticizes the Bennets for not following this custom: "The younger ones out before the elder are married!"
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