Reminds me of the current job market. Entry level position without benefits/crap benefits with a requirement of ten years experience in a job/skill/procedure only in existence for five. Or four year degree but no experience= retail, food, cleaning, and/or nothing that can pay back loans.
Chloe wasn't chosen because she was duchess material. She was chosen because her husband needed a woman who wouldn't cling onto him and one he thought he would never grow attached to. But the staff was expecting someone who could pick up the extra tasks deligated to them in a duchess' absence.
I completely agree things would have been quite different had someone actually given her the chance to learn her position. I suspect her head maid also had a part in that but the biggest culprit was the duke for choosing to marry her in the first place.
I feel like the duke is more at fault than og chloe nobody helped her she was stuck alone at the mansion so like I get what you mean in no way her actions became excusable just fk the duke I still pity og chloe but what could she do tbh
As much as I Stan this story with all of you, I’m really getting tired of hearing how terrible the OG Chloe was. Her being pitiful does not in any way shape or form excuse her mistreatment.
That’s the same argument abusive people use all the time. “If you hadn’t so-and-so I wouldn’t hit you”.
And yes she made mistakes but that doesn’t mean all of a sudden she was deserving of all that.
If at any time she had been shown any compassion or god forbid at least taught her how to perform her duties, who knows how things might’ve been.