Squire Allworthy is spoken of and described by the narrator with admiration and even heroic; the narrator takes care to portray his positive qualities, and thus characterizes him as a good-natured and generous individual despite the immensity of his wealth. The narrator shows him that he prays "on his knees" every evening before going to bed, "a custom from which he has never broken under any pretext". Even as a squire, Allworthy immediately submits to the superior power of his god; Although many believe that the upper classes are too arrogant and arrogant to recognize any power other than their own, Allworthy willingly submits to his superiors without hesitation, thus defying social expectations and stereotypes. Likewise, the narrator's choice of a bitter, sarcastic mocking tone in reference to Mrs. Deborah Wilkins serves to characterize her as vain, pretentious, and uncompassionate as her society would typically perceive the extremely wealthy to be. The narrator's use of bitter and derogatory sarcasm depicts Wilkins as having "spent many minutes adjusting his hair" instead of rushing to his master's urgent aid "out of respect for him." This dig suggests an obsessive preoccupation with outward appearance, etiquette, and vanity unusual for members of a social status as low as that of Mrs. Wilkins, and suggests that predefined judgments of