* JerkassWoobie: Emma is very self-centered but is also pitiful for her high expectations of reality.
* TheWoobie:
** Poor Charles, he's probably a pitiful take on a DoggedNiceGuy. And he's ''married'' to his love.
** Charles and Emma's daughter. Unloved by her mother, and orphaned at an early age, she ends up poor and destitute because of her mother's disastrous decisions.
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