Rose's mom

Ruth was the antagonist to the films protagonist Rose, but she was not necessarily a bad person when looking at her through the eye of a person in that era. The idea of financial marriages is alien to us as well as the concept of courting and the realationship between two people in a marriage. One thing we have to understand is that even if Ruth and Rose were not struggling financially, she would still be expected to marry a man in of their social tier to expand money and name. If Roses father was alive it probably would be a done deal that she would not have escaped and possibly under more pressure to marry Cal. She may have been able to push it off long enough to attend university, but a marriage to a man like Cal would be inevitable.Also, the character of Rose would not exist in that time period. A aristocratic girl like her would not have the wants Rose did. She would actually be able to do more stuff like travel and see the world as a rich women than a drifter like Jack. Anyhow, her expirience was no different than any other girl in her class. Seriously, she wanted to kill herself because she didn't like parties, polo matches and yachts? If you listen to her complaint as old Rose, she never mentioned Cal mistreating her because he wasn't.

Ok, Ruth. Yes, she pressured Rose into marrying him, however Rose wasn't forced and she chose to play along. From Ruth's, and any women of the time, thought that they could be any more lucky.The Hockleys were not merely well off, they were insanely rich. In an ideal situation Ruth could have married someoe herself,but Rose was a better choice to attract as she was young.Ruth, wasn't an ideal prospect unless she was a second wife to a older man who already have children. If she married a man who had no children it as not guarantee she would bear a children at her age, and if she did manage, one child child was a realistic possibility. So with Rose being young, beautiful and possessing a good name. Marriages in the Edwardian era were seldomly unions based on love and common advise for women in that time was "lie back and think of Enlgand". Ruth could not understand Roses reluntence to marry Cal as it would save them from being broke and Ruth more than expirienced the same. What Ruth witnessed was Cal trying to woo Rose and never witnessed anything that suggested Cal was mistreating her, which he was not doing. When she thought Rose died, I highly doubt money crossed her mind. If anything she probably felt guilty for being a factor that led to her daughter death and money was not as important then her daughter. Nobody in that time period would have tht