AY, I think Blondie has a definite resentment there that she's being quite dishonest about--or is in denial about. WASP culture in the extreme is that the children will stand to inherit. I've known many WASP adult children who were bitter to the core when they were either cut out of the wills, or Dad had the nerve to follow some speculative path with "their" money, or Mom or Dad dared to remarry and the new spouse got the loot.

In every case, they were quite entitled in their attitudes, and believed that the parents should look out for themselves--but not at the expense of their inheritance.


But there's something else lurking there, too: she didn't marry a WASP, and she seems acutely aware of that fact. The only WASP kids I knew (I went to school with Cabots and Lowells--as in "Lowells speak only to Cabots, and Cabots speak only to God" fame) who even dated outside their ilk did it to spite their parents. And marriage? To a swarthy one? That there is worthy of disinheritance. She's got something in the closet.