“when I write to them and sign my name ‘Lydia Wickham.” What a good joke it will be!”
Lydia sees her marriage to Wickham as a joke or some sort of playful gesture. Her view of marriage is similar to that of Mrs. Bennet, in the sense that neither of them see it as emotional, but for other reasons. Lydia is caught up in her own playfulness while Mrs. Bennet only thinks of the monetary values.
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I wonder if there's any space for sympathy in regard to Lydia? Is she primarily the product of ill parenting? Is she a helpless victim to a wily Wickham? I'm harsh in my judgment of Lydia, and I want to reevaluate that stance. Does she have a more complicated subjectivity that we've overlooked? Probably not, but I do wonder. Charlotte Lucas makes a very calculated more to marry Collins. Does anything deep lie within Lydia's marriage with Wickham? If it is advantageous, how does Lydia gain from her union with Wickham?
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