This is because Mr. Wickham does not get a very good income as an officer in the regiments. He leaves the Bennet house and goes on to look for a wife with money. He does not look far to find Miss King. He became engaged to her and her money, and Elizabeth on hearing about the engagement thought it very “wise” and “financially independent”. Unfortunately Miss King’s parents came in time to cancel any arrangements made between them, because they knew Mr Wickham wanted to marry their daughter for her money. Also that he had no money of his own too.
Finally Mr. Wickham decides to run away with Lydia, which eventually turns out to be a good thing for Mr. Wickham. The Bennett’s thought that they would get bad name now and that they would never get Jane or any of their daughters for that matter, to marry a man of great fortune. No man would want to marry a woman who has a family with a bad reputation.
This is when Darcy comes in and helps out by finding both Lydia and Mr. Wickham. He pays Mr. Wickham ten thousand pounds to marry Lydia. But Mr. Bennet thinks Mr. Wickham is ‘a fool’ to ‘take Lydia with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds’. In the end this saves the Bennet family from a bad reputation and shame. Mr. Wickham ends up marrying Lydia.
So all in all it seems that Mr. Wickham was generally looking for a woman with money enough to live with and have an ordinary life with the exception that he had taken a liking to Elizabeth when he arrived in to Meryton.
Elizabeth a woman looking for ‘romance’ and ‘love’ takes a liking towards Mr. Wickham when she meets him at his arrival to Meryton, but she knows that they can not be together for it would be a hard life with Mr. Wickham as an ‘officer in the regiments’.
Then Elizabeth is ‘cautioned’ by Charlotte to ‘not be a simpleton and allow her fancy for Mr. Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man of ten times his consequence’. This is because Charlotte does not want Elizabeth so think that fancying Mr. Wickham is bad.
Mrs. Gardiner gives the advice of Elizabeth being a ‘sensible girl’ and not to go for a ‘man with great fortune’ but to consider going for a ‘man she fancies’ she also says that she would ‘not disappoint [her] father’. But Elizabeth still disagrees with Mrs. Gardiner as she does not as such “love Mr. Wickham” though “he is, beyond all comparison, the most agreeable man” she ever saw. She also states that Darcy is ‘abominable’.
There is the most conflict on marriage between Elizabeth and Mr. Collins, when Mr. Collins says that he and Elizabeth would be married together. Elizabeth ‘interrupts him’ and declares him ‘too hasty’ and that she has ‘made no answer’ about getting married to him. But Mr. Collins being a fool thinks ‘that it it’s usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept’. But Elizabeth surprised at his reaction states clearly that she is ‘perfectly serious in [her] refusal’ and that he ‘could not make [her] happy, and is convinced that [he] could not make her happy’ either. Mr. Collins then leaves the Bennet house in search for another woman willing to marry him.
Later Elizabeth becomes attracted to Mr Darcy as she began to ‘comprehend that he…was the man, who….would most suit her’. Her ‘liveliness and ease’ towards him ‘must have been to the advantage’ making him improve on his manners and judgment of people. But Lady Catherine objects to the idea of a match between Darcy and Elizabeth because she says that Elizabeth is a ‘young woman without family, connections, or fortune.’
But both Elizabeth and Darcy do not give up; she is still attracted to Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Darcy is still attracted to Elizabeth, though they both change in different ways which makes them realize who they really are and how they have been making mistakes about each other. Elizabeth at first thought that Mr. Darcy was a proud and prejudice person who would never look at someone, who is not at his social status, as an equal. Though later on he realises that the person he really likes is below his social status and so he begins to change, knowing what he is doing wrong. Elizabeth on the other-hand changes too, after Mr. Darcy sends a letter to Elizabeth, she realises that she is proud too, and she is surprised at this as she seemed to be always right in her first instincts though finds out that she is wrong about Mr. Darcy and Mr. Wickham.
In the end Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy both get married together and live ‘at Pemberley’.
Overall Mr. Wickham’s attitude towards marriage differs from Elizabeth’s because Mr. Wickham is superficial and not serious at all, since he just wants to marry somebody preferable a woman with a lot of money as he is a mercenary man.
But Elizabeth on the other-hand is profound and quite serious about her marriage as she wants it to be perfect al most. She is also very disinterested as in she does not go for the rich and powerful but for someone who she can respect, for example, when she turned Mr. Darcy down when he offered her in marriage.
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