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Pride and Prejudice has a well-knit, coherent plot where all events and characters are integrated and exemplify the same theme. The Lydia-Wickham episode is one of the subplots of the novel and contributes much to the main plot of the Elizabeth-Darcy courtship and marriage.
Wickham as a Foil to Darcy
Wickham’s first importance is to deepen Elizabeth’s prejudice against Darcy. Darcy appears proud and forbidding when he mortifies Elizabeth by refusing to dance with her for she is not sufficiently beautiful to tempt him. His haughtiness and general demeanor make him unlikeable to Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth, the whole of Meryton and in fact even to the reader, who all wish to see this proud man from Derbyshire receive a set-down. And Wickham in the early chapters seems to be just the person to do it.
He is precisely what Darcy is not pleasant and charming and more to Elizabeth’s point he is attentive to her, unlike Darcy who had ignored her. When he first meets Elizabeth. he singles her out and makes her his confidant. Elizabeth enamored by his grace, charm and attentiveness flirts with him and is so taken in by his polished manners that she is ready to believe the slanderous falsehoods that Wickham has to tell about Darcy. Thus, Wickham’s integral in driving the wedge of prejudice deeper in Elizabeth, alienating her further from Darcy. Significantly Darcy’s supposed villainy towards Wickham is one of
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