<Li> Lydia Bennet--the youngest Bennet sister, aged 15 when the novel begins . She is frivolous and headstrong . Her main activity in life is socializing, especially flirting with the officers of the militia . This leads to her running off with George Wickham, although he has no intention of marrying her . Lydia shows no regard for the moral code of her society; as Ashley Tauchert says, she "feels without reasoning ." </Li> <Li> Charles Bingley--a handsome, amiable, wealthy young gentleman who leases Netherfield Park, an estate three miles from Longbourn, with the hopes of purchasing it . He is contrasted with Mr. Darcy for having more generally pleasing manners, although he is reliant on his more experienced friend for advice . An example of this is the prevention of Bingley and Jane's romance because of Bingley's undeniable dependence on Darcy's opinion . He lacks resolve and is easily influenced by others; his two sisters, Miss Caroline Bingley and Mrs. Louisa Hurst, both disapprove of Bingley's growing affection for Miss Jane Bennet . </Li> <Li> Caroline Bingley--the vainglorious, snobbish sister of Charles Bingley, with a dowry of £ 20,000 . Miss Bingley harbours designs upon Mr. Darcy, and therefore is jealous of his growing attachment to Elizabeth . She attempts to dissuade Mr. Darcy from liking Elizabeth by ridiculing the Bennet family and criticising Elizabeth's comportment . Miss Bingley also disapproves of her brother's esteem for Jane Bennet, and is disdainful of society in Meryton . Her wealth and her expensive education seem to be the two greatest sources of Caroline Bingley's vanity and conceit . The dynamic between Caroline Bingley and her sister, Louisa Hurst, seems to echo that of Lydia and Kitty Bennet's; that one is a no more than a follower of the other, with Caroline Bingley in the same position as Lydia, and Louisa Hurst in Kitty's . </Li> <Li> George Wickham--Wickham has been acquainted with Mr. Darcy since infancy, being the son of Mr. Darcy's father's steward . An officer in the militia, he is superficially charming and rapidly forms an attachment with Elizabeth Bennet . He later runs off with Lydia with no intention of marriage, which would have resulted in her complete disgrace, but for Darcy's intervention to bribe Wickham to marry her by paying off his immediate debts . </Li>

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