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She Constantly Left Jack on a Hook Rose had no loyalty and never had Jack's back. They first meet at Titanic's stern, where Rose contemplates jumping to end her life. Hoping to dissuade her, Jack removes his jacket and boots to prove he's serious about going in the ocean after her. She nearly slips, and her screams catch the crew's attention. Between Jack being stripped down and Rose's disheveled appearance, it's presumed he tried to rape her. She allows enough time for Jack to get handcuffed and chewed out by a summoned Cal before she speaks up. She could've told the stewards right away there wasn't any funny business, but no. Cal rewards Jack's heroism with a first-class dinner invitation. He and Mama Ruth waste no opportunity to throw …show more content…

When she goes to retrieve Jack from the holding area, he asks "How did you find out I didn't do it [steal the Heart of the Ocean]?" She replies "I didn't; I just realized I already knew." *Kandi Burruss voice* The lies! The lies! As I explained moments ago, Cal's revealing statement is what sent her down to the flooding E-deck. Rose fibbed to Jack again when she promised to "never let go," only to release his frozen dead hand and swim for help. Winslet joked about this on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “I lie! I fully lie. I hold my hand up, I let him go." Unlike everyone else, Rose wasn't impressed by Titanic. Upon boarding, she scoffs, "I don't see what all of the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauretania." Later, however, she flatters Andrews: "Your ship is a wonder...Truly." Jack didn't need or ask for juice on the first-class passengers, but Rose was happy to fill him in. She smiled and waved at people while she gossiped about John Jacob Astor's pregnant child bride, Benjamin Guggenheim's mistress and Lady Duff-Gordon's "naughty lingerie" line (all 3 were real-life travelers). So much for being above petty conversation. Cal reportedly killed himself in 1929, after the Wall Street Crash affected his assets. His children squabbled over the estate. Given that this was public knowledge and mostly inconsequential to Lovett, Rose didn't have to throw …show more content…

Her Mauretania comment showed she had no gratitude for or understanding of her privilege. It was all too natural for her to point out that Jack really "got around for a poor boy," and to banish him from her "part of the ship" simply because he ruffled her feathers. After Titanic went under, Rose floated on top of a door, while Jack suffered (without a life-jacket) in the frosty water. She had the nerve to complain, "I'm so cold...I can't feel my body." You're cold?? You can't feel your body?? You've got to be kidding me. Lovett's search for the Heart of the Ocean had gone on for three years. At his wits end, he made a plea for information on television. Rose responded to the call, knowing good and well she wouldn't disclose her possession of the diamond. She wastes his time and teases him with details. Her (ulterior) motive? Accessing her drawing. Seeing the illustration, she rhetorically asks, "Wasn't I a dish?" She wasn't short on audacity or

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