Well, owning up to your mistakes takes guts which she clearly lacked.
I think it's understandable to hate her because she blamed innocent person, but to hate her because 'she lacks skill, she also lacked character' is unreasonable. Hate the action, not the person.
It will take a saint to like someone with no skills AND a bad character. Someone with no skills but a good attitude can be taught, while someone with a bad attitude but with skills may be disciplined. You can't just be bad at both and expect people around you to be okay with it. That's toxic and unreasonable. Her act of constantly shying away from things that scares her (even at the expense of another) shows the kind of person she is. There is no dichotomy between the action and the person because its the person who chose to commit those actions. Her trauma may explain her inadequacies but it cannot excuse it. At some point, past Chloe had to take control of her life and woman up but we've yet to see a flashback of that.
Of course I wont condone those who made fun or took advantage of her but I can't say the same for those who ignored her.
I didn't say anthing about liking anyone.
Lacking character isn't the same as having bad character. I would dare say the past Clhoe didn't have bad attitude. She could be a coward for not taking responsibility for her wrong doing, which was that one time (as far as the story goes, because it seems no one else hates her except the maid) when she was kinda cornered - and I'm not okay with that, but not a bad person.
As far as the story goes, it seems the past Chloe didn't expect people around her to be okay with it, she was too scared of them all to even have that thought. I would say she was not in an appropriate situation (both emotional and physical) to do or learn to do what people expected from her.
And there is a dichotomy between the action and the person who commits it. Or else there wouldn't be differences in killing someone by accident, on purpose, due to self-defense, etc., in stealing for food, for fun, in doing charity work for fame, as an punishment, for goodness.
Wow. Past Chloe was a piece of work. Now that we're learning much more abt her, its starting to look like a miracle how the Duke was able to put up with her for so long.
Like not only did she lacks skills, she also lacked character. No wonder everyone hated her. I mean yeah, I could understand why she had such low self esteem but to intentionally harm someone innocent because she couldn't own up to her own incompetence just shows how worthless of a character she was. If i were there, it would really be hard to pity, much less respect that person.
Glad new Chloe is fixing things.