And to be fair, he does certainly settle and try to put the best (or funniest) face on things when he has no choice, ie Wickham. Not an appealing character trait to me. And it's a bit ironic in that he probably did just the same thing himself when he married. There you go, make it someone else’s responsibility because he can't be troubled to do better for his family. So he denigrates young men acting in the culturally/period expected way because it is inconvenient for him. MARIA: See, I take this to mean that he sees young men who would consider a woman's dowry when choosing marriage worthless-and I assume that is because it would cost Mr. I have to give him a little slack here, for two reasons: 1) he's sarcastic and facetious in conversation nearly 100% of the time - we can see that he doesn't actually want his kids to end up with worthless young men (he's pretty mad at Lizzie when he thinks she's marrying someone she won't be able to respect). In a conversation with Elizabeth he said that he had meant to lay by a sum by which he could 'bribe worthless young men to marry his daughters." That tells us not only did he know what he should do, and failed in his duty, but reveals his thoroughly rotten attitude toward doing it.
He was definitely lazy and passive which meant that he failed to attend to his responsibility to his wife and daughters.
So let's start there: you think Bennet was a truly dreadful father? Not just lazy, not just clueless, but downright terrible? Bennet was a truly dreadful father, so maybe I'm channeling your wavelength. MARIA: Oddly enough I was just thinking about doing a blog post on why Mr.
But often in your books, he's more malicious and something for Lizzie to overcome. Most readers consider him sort of funny and witty and mildly (or more than mildly) neglectful and lazy as a parent/husband, but never downright cruel or a bad guy, especially where Lizzie - his favorite daughter, and arguable favorite person - is concerned. I was thinking that it'd be interesting to talk about your darker tones and general treatment of Mr Bennet, who is often more adversarial (in some of your books, and others I’ve read) than I think most people would expect from having only read P&P and being new to adaptations.
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