She’s a character that seems to want to escape the story she’s in. She starts out as a stereotype of a college student who’s been corrupted by her studies at Yale because you need to be afraid of sending your kids to college, it turns them into liberals.

She converts with token resistance when her shitty cheating dad “finds” god and then is promptly married off to a guy more than a decade older than her.

The blog Slacktivist did/does a really long running breakdown of the series, and she was always a popular character in “fan”fiction in the comments.