Pride and Prejudice #13

"But you know married women have never much time for writing.  My sisters may write to me.  They will have nothing else to do" (Austen 276).

Ever since Lydia's elopement to Mr. Wickham, she has demonstrated an insolent behavior.  She believes that just because she is married to someone, she has a higher social class than most people.  In this case, being married is an approbation  for increasing a female's social status.  Lydia's haughtiness strikes as condescending, saying that she is too busy to write to her own family.  The task of writing is a languor.  To deride her sisters to write to Lydia is not only mocking, but disrespectful to her family.  Before her marriage, Lydia was taciturn.  It goes to show that marriage makes the difference in a female's life.  Looking at the relationship between Lydia and Mr. Wickham, they appear to have swapped personalities.  From previous knowledge, we know Mr. Wickham has no probity for his actions to Mr. Darcy.  On the other hand, Lydia was this affable daughter of the Bennets.  Looking at this specific passage, "Mr.Wickham's adieus were much more affectionate than his wife's" (276).  Lydia is so caught up on the fact that she is married that she has become pompous, rubbing off characteristics from her husband.