The Character of Victoria Daltry

live in the mansion. Such as Kate that lives in Yarrow House, Prince Gabriel even live in a Castle. Mansions are big house which cannot manage only by the family member, so the aristocrats have some servants. Upper class people also have large land that is rent to the tenants. The landlords take some responsibility toward his tenants‟ welfare in change to the tax that the landlords collect from them. From the tax the aristocrats could live superb without a real job. For the aristocrats to have some jobs is big scandal. They like to party and show their wealth by some expensive cloths and jewelries. Mariana is the owner of Yarrow House and the large land surrounding it. Mariana should takes responsibility of her tenants, though in reality she abandon her tenants and just takes the money from them to spent on expensive clothes and jewelries. Sometimes the aristocrats does not really care about the lower class and just do whatever they wants, like what Mariana did, because they have the power over the lower class: It should be said that the condition wasn’t unfamiliar to her [Kate]. Before her father died seven years earlier, she found herself sometimes irritated with her new stepmother. But it wasn’t until he was gone, and the new Mrs. Daltry —who had held that title for a matter of mere months—started ruling the roost, that Kate really learned the meaning of anger. Anger was watching tenants on the estate be forced to pay double the rent or leave cottages where they’d lived their whole lives. Anger was watching the crops wilt and the hedges overgrow because her stepmother begrudged the money needed to maintain the estate. Anger was watching her father’s money be poured into new gowns and bonnets and frilly things . . . so numerous that her stepmother and stepsister couldn’t find days enough in the year to wear them all.James, 2010: 2-3 Katherine Daltry is an upper class woman because of that position Kate has some benefit one of them is that people will treat her respectfully: Kate knew quite well that the household was on her side. They couldn’t help it; it was bred into the bones of the best servants. They were trained to serve ladies and gentlemen, not those of their own class. Obviously they had sensed that Mariana’s origins were not genteel. James, 2010: 29. From above quotation, we could see that as an aristocrat woman, Kate has right to be treat respectfully by the servants which is the lower class. She has higher status than Mariana, which her origin is not genteel. It means that women status in the society also depend on her breed. An aristocrat woman should be treating respectfully. Prince Gabriel is also an aristocrat has sensed to treat her with good respect. At first, Gabriel wants Kate to be his Mistress. However, since Kate is a granddaughter of an earl, she cannot become a mistress: He opened his eyes. “Had I asked you something?” “ Why have you lost your mind?” she asked. “Is it because I’ve allowed you such liberties?” “Perhaps.” She scowled at him. “Offer me a post as your mistress and I’ll stab you with a fork, just as Effie stabbed Beckham. Except the fork won’t go in your hand. I am not to be trifled with.” “I like my mistresses fat and juicy,” he said, slanting her another of his wicked looks. James, 2010: 204. Gabriel really wants Kate to be his mistress but Kate is an aristocrat woman, means that she has higher position in the society. She could not be a mistress. It is why Prince Gabriel not pushes Kate to be his mistress when she refused. Even though Kate is an aristocrat, she is poor and has no dowry. Women without dowry would be difficult to find husband. Katherine Daltry is a poor