Violet Gray - Snobbery

Snobbery

Violet's most consistent personality trait is that she tends to be a bit of a snob, very conscious of appearances and status. It is implied that her family enjoys a considerably higher class position than the other characters'. Both of her parents are college graduates and her father makes more money than Charlie Brown's, a barber. When walking with Linus once, she insisted she was not going to be seen walking with a boy holding a blanket, whereupon he quickly transformed his blanket into an ascot (May 18, 1956). She also frequently criticizes Pig-Pen for his inability to keep himself clean. Violet often looks down on people who fail to meet her social standards, especially Charlie Brown, to whom she once stated flatly, "It simply goes without saying that you are an inferior human being." His adroit reply to that was, "If it goes without saying, why did you have to say it?!"

Being supposedly of upper class upbringing, Violet also makes it a point to brag frequently about her father, especially to Charlie Brown, sometimes driving him to the point of aggravation. Violet's fatherly boastings were always comparative; to wit, she would say, "My dad is taller than your dad", or "My dad has more credit cards than your dad". However, in a Father's Day strip, her boasts are quelled (at least momentarily) when Charlie Brown takes her to his dad's barber shop. After telling her about how his dad would always smile at him no matter how bad of a workday he was having, a humbled Violet walked away, but not before quietly wishing Charlie Brown a Happy Father's Day. Her bragging about her father backfired another time when 555 95472 fired back at her with "My dad goes to PTA meetings!" Charlie Brown once managed to deflate her with the comeback: "My dad has a son."