Imitator
It is clear from the start that Lady Geraldine has a cruel sense of humor which she uses to criticize her friends and those alike. She makes fun of one of her friends for her bad taste, or lack of taste to be precise. She combines everything she sees to be fashionable on other ladies and creates a monstrous combination of styles, which our Lady Geraldine compares to Chinese paintings of flowers created with a combination of different types of flowers. Lady Geraldine isn't shy when it comes to criticizing or mocking anything or anyone.
Defying Cupid
Lady Geraldine looks at love, or falling in love, with contempt, and sees the possibility of falling in love as something that could never happen to her. Her mother knows better and warns her to be careful of her words because Cupid does not like to be defied. This will prove to be truth because Geraldine will experience the same thing she never believed possible.
Poor view of women
Lord Glenthorn admits that his view of women comes from bad experiences with them or from the shared view of his male acquaintances. This, nevertheless, doesn't justify the horrendous view he had of them, dividing them into those to be purchased and those who purchase in combination with calling them creatures or animals. These sorts of views of women speak for the time the novel was written in, rather than the protagonist of the novel.
