Redeeming Lydia Bennett

I was thinking about Lydia Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. Mr Collins says about her that her disposition must be naturally bad, and I was trying to separate her bad choices from her disposition. If she had not had such indulgent parents, what might she have been like? Then I started wondering about all the Bennett girls. What might each of them have been like if they were mature, growing Christians with their dispositions bent in the right direction? To separate Lydia from the excesses to which her disposition and unwise parenting led her, what is she like? She's outgoing, bright, sparkling, vivacious, ready to embrace people and think well of them, except those who stand between her and what she wants. She's stubborn, determined to get what she wants. Turn all that away from herself, and she'd be a very welcoming person, someone to make new people feel like they belong, an excellent hostess, and possibly even a good activist for oppressed people. Good with children, probably--they'd be attracted to her winsomeness.
It's hard to tell with Kitty, what her best possible character would be. A follower, not one with too many of her own thoughts, but with a strong sense of justice. Turn that to justice for others and give her a bit more strength of character, and she'd be a pretty neat person.
Mary now--a redeemed Mary would be quite my favorite. She's got a mind that turns away from all the silliness of her world and seeks knowledge and wisdom. She doesn't know what to do with it, never having been given any real training, so her attempts at wisdom and comfort come out all pedantic and silly. I like the way the newer movie of Pride and Prejudice shows her, all young and awkward and overshadowed by her four vivacious and beautiful sisters, and pretending she doesn't feel it as much as she does. She could learn a real wisdom and actually be a source of help to someone.
Elizabeth is a universal favorite, of course, and one of my favorites. Her charms are known--intelligent, witty, idealistic, kind, a lover of beauty. But, of course, she's also a little thoughtless, rash, too quick to judge by appearances, stubborn, certain that her ways are the ways, cynical. She could be a little more accepting of people's weaknesses, less apt to judge, less able to be fooled by pretty manners, a little wiser.
And Jane--well, Jane is all that is sweet and giving, what many would say is a true Christian character, though certainly one needn't be like Jane to be a true Christian. Her main defect is that she doesn't, or refuses to, understand the true nature of evil. That is not actually a good thing. To comprehend what God has done for us, one needs to comprehend what He has overcome in us and what remains in the world. To be able to have a clear outlook on the world and yet retain her kindness and love for the people in it would be a great gift for Jane and, indeed, for everyone around her.