Lydia needs to keep it in her pants, Good Lord Jesus. i am completely thrown, more than at any time in this crazy soap opera of a novel. WHY IN GOD'S GREEN EARTH ARE LYDIA AND WICKHAM GETTING MARRIED??? WHERE THE HECK DID THAT COME FROM... SERIOUSLY????? I am so dumbfounded by this whole situation. Also, are they even married, are they just running away for no reason? I'm pretty sure Lizzy and the Bennets ( sounds like a good band name?) are just as confused as I am and of course Lizzy isn't even home yet. "What I have to ... bad at heart" (Austen 260). So this section starts off with a bang. However, although this is very intriguing, I became quickly disinterested with the amount of time this particular event held in this part of the novel, and the blatant under-appreciation of the main event that has still yet to really spice up!!! My homegirl Lizzy and Darcy???
So, as expected, everyone freaks out before Lizzy and the Gardiners even hear word about Lydia. Mr. Bennet is already in London trying to find her and the Mr. Gardiner goes to help him seek out both of them. Lizzy heads back to Longbourn to be with her overly worked up family. The funniest part for me about this whole debacle, is that no one can figure why a man like Wickham would want to marry Lydia. To them she has no money and average looks and personality. "Never since reading Jane's second letter , has she entertained a hope of Wickham meaning to marry her" (Austen 166). They are all skeptical as to the reason why Wickham so suddenly and secretly whisked her away. To tell you the truth so am I, I think it's a little creepy to be honest.
The letter Lydia wrote pissed me off way more than it should have. Mrs. Bennet is now all about forcing Wickham to marry Lydia, but the stupid little girl is not even mature enough, to A) tell her parents she's leaving in person, B) write a decent letter that didn't sound like she was so happy to be causing so much angst and C) not be so self centered about her clothes rather than the fact that she ran away from home to get married to Wickham UGH. She is just way to childish and immature to be leaving the house alone, let alone getting married to Wickham who I am pretty sure is like 55 at this point. Mr. Bennet gets so worked up about Lydia that he says, "The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison to this" (Austen 181), in the last letter he sends home before he gets too worked up and comes home.
Then, we find out that not only is Wickham a liar, a creeper and a jerk, but he also gambled away all his money and now has 10,000 pounds worth of debt from gambling in the town, so he just keeps getting better and better. The in probably my favorite thing Mr. Bennet has ever said (which is not much), he says, "You go to Brighton ... a rational manner" (Austen 284). It was so sassy and fricken perfect and poor Kitty's life is going to be so sheltered because Lydia is such a dumb butt. It is so similar to the way children parent relationships still are that it made me smile a little bit. I know so many kids who are tortured because of the crappy teenagers that their older brothers and sisters were that Mr. Bennet freaking out just made me giggle.
THEN, after 30+ pages of generally unexciting news, Mr. Gardiner finds and talks to Lydia and Wickham, they are not married but in London and they came to some sort of money agreement so now they are locked into getting married (which apparently is a good thing???) and suddenly Mrs. Bennet is in love with Wickham and all sins are forgiven because her stupid daughter is getting married.
Finally, in a random spurt, Lizzy realizes that she loved Darcy and that he would be the perfect man to marry and I got so happy. "What a triumph ... benefit of greater performance" (Austen 195). Lizzy basically just rants on for a whole paragraph about all the pent up things she has been beginning to feel and I almost started crying because I thought this was going to be it. BUT NOPE STILL WAITING. There is something oddly satisfying about the tension between Lizzy and Darcy and the inevitable love that is going to happen, I don't know, there is just something about those relationships that start off so weird into something so perfect. They are so satisfying, however this book is one big tease with all sorts of extraneous plot points that aren't Lizzy and Darcy and I just want the love to happen. I might actually cry when it does.
Then, we find out that not only is Wickham a liar, a creeper and a jerk, but he also gambled away all his money and now has 10,000 pounds worth of debt from gambling in the town, so he just keeps getting better and better. The in probably my favorite thing Mr. Bennet has ever said (which is not much), he says, "You go to Brighton ... a rational manner" (Austen 284). It was so sassy and fricken perfect and poor Kitty's life is going to be so sheltered because Lydia is such a dumb butt. It is so similar to the way children parent relationships still are that it made me smile a little bit. I know so many kids who are tortured because of the crappy teenagers that their older brothers and sisters were that Mr. Bennet freaking out just made me giggle.
THEN, after 30+ pages of generally unexciting news, Mr. Gardiner finds and talks to Lydia and Wickham, they are not married but in London and they came to some sort of money agreement so now they are locked into getting married (which apparently is a good thing???) and suddenly Mrs. Bennet is in love with Wickham and all sins are forgiven because her stupid daughter is getting married.
Finally, in a random spurt, Lizzy realizes that she loved Darcy and that he would be the perfect man to marry and I got so happy. "What a triumph ... benefit of greater performance" (Austen 195). Lizzy basically just rants on for a whole paragraph about all the pent up things she has been beginning to feel and I almost started crying because I thought this was going to be it. BUT NOPE STILL WAITING. There is something oddly satisfying about the tension between Lizzy and Darcy and the inevitable love that is going to happen, I don't know, there is just something about those relationships that start off so weird into something so perfect. They are so satisfying, however this book is one big tease with all sorts of extraneous plot points that aren't Lizzy and Darcy and I just want the love to happen. I might actually cry when it does.
LOOK AT THAT CONNECTION YESSSS\
Then Lydia and Wickham get married blah blah blah, BUT THEN, for some reason Darcy is there and Lizzy is like what you ate Wickham, so she writes to her aunt to find out. Mrs. Gardiner tells her that Darcy decided that he should forgive Wickham and that all harsh feelings should be set aside, because he is perfect and if that doesn't seal the deal for Lizzy I don't know if she's dumb or just wants to be unhappy. Flash forward to Mr. Bingley and Darcy coming in what might be the love moment, but no..... Darcy is weird and doesn't talk to Lizzy and sits far away from her and is super weird. In the meantime stupid Bingley is flirting with Jane who was so stressed about him coming she got sick. But then he comes and acts like nothing ever happened, like no leave Bingley ya jerk thank you!!! Finally, a weird exchange happens between Mrs. Bennet and Lizzy about Darcy and to be honest I am not entirely sure what happened, but it was not good.
Then Lydia and Wickham get married blah blah blah, BUT THEN, for some reason Darcy is there and Lizzy is like what you ate Wickham, so she writes to her aunt to find out. Mrs. Gardiner tells her that Darcy decided that he should forgive Wickham and that all harsh feelings should be set aside, because he is perfect and if that doesn't seal the deal for Lizzy I don't know if she's dumb or just wants to be unhappy. Flash forward to Mr. Bingley and Darcy coming in what might be the love moment, but no..... Darcy is weird and doesn't talk to Lizzy and sits far away from her and is super weird. In the meantime stupid Bingley is flirting with Jane who was so stressed about him coming she got sick. But then he comes and acts like nothing ever happened, like no leave Bingley ya jerk thank you!!! Finally, a weird exchange happens between Mrs. Bennet and Lizzy about Darcy and to be honest I am not entirely sure what happened, but it was not good.