Although rules of society have been changing since the Victorian era, one thing has still remained and that is praise that the common people have for the rich. Charlotte Bronte’s was able to give an accurate depiction of the rich getting all the respect, in her novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre who is a poor young girl is constantly treated like an animal just because she was not of status. In the very first chapter a couple of pages into the story, Jane and her cousin had an altercation. He was angry because she was reading one of the books in his house: “You have no business to take our books, you are dependant… you have not money; you father left you none; you ought to beg” (10). Simply because she did not have money that gave her cousin and society card blanch to make life’s a living hell. Also the maids at Mrs. Reed’s house praise her haughty children. Jane was much better than Mrs. Reed's kid. This shows that some people only praise people based on their money not their merits. In today’s society has an obsession with celebrities. Gossip magazines and television show are cashing with public’s fascination with rich celebrities. Just like today people in the Victorian era the rich were praised and loved for doing absolutely nothing.