Mrs. Gardiner imprudently (or prudently, depending on the time period) denigrates Mr. Wickham’s scavenger attitude and attacks his dignity, as if preying Miss King. Elizabeth claims that “a man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorum’s which other people may observe. If she does not object to it, why should we” (115)? I believe, as does Mrs. Gardiner, that “her not objecting, does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself— sense or feeling” (115). I believe what Miss King lacks is dignity.
If someone is at fault here, which is it? Considering the time period, Mr. Wickham has the right to hunt as he pleases, but the, respectful mourning paid to deceased loved ones has gone unchanged throughout time.
As Miss King, Gertrude from Shakespeare’s Hamlet dishonors the memory of a lost companion.
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