The American Betrayal Quotes

Claire knows how to follow proper etiquette, even after she's betrayed Newman in a major way. Leave it to those 19th Century gentlefolk to sugarcoat cruelty in a delicious fondant.

At least we know Claire's keeping score of the people she's betrayed? But this sentence also underscores the fact that Claire is aware of the degrees of betrayal—she knows that betrayal with intention is way worse than, say, betraying your best friend by eating the last eggroll because you just happened to absentmindedly stuff it in your mouth.*

*Based on a true story from a Shmoop family dinner.

This is important. We're getting acknowledgment that Newman's totally in the right, whereas the Bellegarde family messed up big-time.