| Another character rather like Cal. She is completely spoiled, selfish, and materialistic. A character that I would just love to shove off the deck of Titanic. :-) Frances Fisher is pretty wonderful in this role. She made me hate her character, so of course she's pretty good! |  |
 | Ruth is very much like Mrs. Bennet in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The main thing that mattered to her was money. She was a little frivolous at times, like at tea and so forth. Her quotes all made my skin crawl--the infamous, "Will the lifeboats be seated according to class?" and "You find that sort of rootless existence appealing, do you?" |
| Yet Ruth does have a heart after all; it is made evident in the corset scene when she says, "We're women. Our choices are never easy." And Ruth also has a childlike quality about her. Like, when Rose ran away from the lifeboat to save Jack, Ruth was upon the verge of throwing a tantrum. But it's difficult for me not to sympathize with her because in one night, everything she has ever placed any value in has been yanked away from her. |  |
