At the end of the book, Lydia and Wickham are married, and Wickham has been posted away up north to get the happy couple away from (a) the ire of Wickham's former regiment - he fled on account of gambling debts, which Darcy has paid off, but people do bear grudges, and (b) the gossip of Lydia's neighborhood, which knows very well that Lydia and Wickham lived together for weeks before they were married.
There isn't a full-blown family estrangement, but it's clear that Elizabeth and Jane don't intend to keep in close touch with the Wickhams (partly because Wickham once almost eloped with Elizabeth's new husband's younger sister).
Perhaps I am unfair to my 2013 self, but I think that I (and, in fairness, many other viewers, both then and today) would have gone "LYDIA WHAT ARE YOU THINKING. DO NOT MAKE HOMEMADE PORN YOUR CAREER. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?"
And, on a less sex-work-specific note, there *is* something alienating in the book about the fact that Lydia is so obnoxiously self-centered and utterly unaware of the misery that she's caused her family. While she was missing they were so worried that they barely ate and slept, and then she waltzes back in bragging about how she's the first in the family to get married, and move over, Jane! Now that I'm a *married woman*, I take the pride of place that was previously yours as eldest daughter!
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Date: 2022-10-01 08:23 pm (UTC)There isn't a full-blown family estrangement, but it's clear that Elizabeth and Jane don't intend to keep in close touch with the Wickhams (partly because Wickham once almost eloped with Elizabeth's new husband's younger sister).
Perhaps I am unfair to my 2013 self, but I think that I (and, in fairness, many other viewers, both then and today) would have gone "LYDIA WHAT ARE YOU THINKING. DO NOT MAKE HOMEMADE PORN YOUR CAREER. WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?"
And, on a less sex-work-specific note, there *is* something alienating in the book about the fact that Lydia is so obnoxiously self-centered and utterly unaware of the misery that she's caused her family. While she was missing they were so worried that they barely ate and slept, and then she waltzes back in bragging about how she's the first in the family to get married, and move over, Jane! Now that I'm a *married woman*, I take the pride of place that was previously yours as eldest daughter!