Like the five sisters of York, the Baron of Grogzwig is initially happy. Again, Dickens makes an implicit argument about what the “good life” is. This story presents the “good life” as the ability to live a life of leisure filled with joy and merriment. At his wife’s urging, though, the baron stops doing the things he once enjoyed doing, suggesting that family and who one marries can lead to unhappiness as well as presenting new issues. Notably, like Nicholas Sr., the baron falls into debt, and that debt has the potential to further upend his life.