Squire Allworthy is mentioned and described by the narrator with admiration and even heroism; the narrator takes care to portray his positive qualities, thus characterizing him as a good-natured and generous individual despite the immensity of his wealth. The narrator shows him praying "on his knees" every night before going to bed, "a habit he never broke for any reason." 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 beyond their own, Allworthy willingly submits to his superiors without hesitation, thus defying social expectations and stereotypes. Likewise, the narrator's choice of a bitter and mockingly sarcastic tone in reference to Mrs. Deborah Wilkins serves to characterize her as equally vain, pretentious, and lacking in compassion as her society would normally perceive the extremely wealthy to be. The narrator's use of bitter and derogatory sarcasm portrays Wilkins as having "spent many minutes fixing his hair" instead of hastily running to his master's urgent aid "out of respect for him." This excavation suggests an obsessive concern with outward appearance, etiquette, and vanity unusual for members of a low social position such as that of Mrs. Wilkins, and suggests that default judgments of