I never suspected Betty came from old money, or was ever really rich. It is quite apparent that Mean Gene had built a very nice business, and lavished his little princess with plenty, while heaping scorn on little William. So like many upper middle class American women, she grew up with the idea that men owed her. It is eactly the same reason Tizzie believes Betty is entitled Don's money.

Daddy's little feminst princess can never grow up. The men in her life will never live up to her Daddy, so she will go through life bitter and resentful of men, destroying every relationship she enters until she dies an angry, lonely old woman with seven cats and a bathrobe that smells of ammonia. Then there is Betty.