Death and inheritance
The imagery that begins this corruption of Glicera's character is the death of her father and her disappointment with her inheritance. In that one bit of imagery, we see her sociopathic tendencies. She grieves her father's death for all the wrong reasons. Instead of being jolted to full-blown awareness about her father's life and sacrifice for her benefit, she instantly plays the victim of her own father's death, getting frustrated at her dead father for not giving her more. He gave his life for her, and she literally wants more.
Entitlement and disappointment
Glicera's character experiences life through an imagery that the reader sees throughout her story very clearly. She clearly carries a sense of entitlement that stems from her spoiling privilege, and then when life disappoints her by not automatically giving her whatever she wants, then she gets disappointed and plays the victim. She has serious hubris that corrupts her character by making her elevate her own importance at the expense of other people that she forgets are of equal value as she is.
Betrayal and trust
Glicera falls for a man named Melladore, but again, she has an entitled attitude that leaves her easy prey for Melladore's predatory ways. She automatically believes that nothing bad could happen to her because she is obviously the best, and then a guy comes along affirming her enormous ego and easily tricks her into trusting him. She plays the victim of betrayal, and in this case, she actually is the victim of betrayal, technically speaking, but before the reader gets any time to sympathize with her, she is running around doing the very same thing that Melladore did to her.
Hatred and violence
The imagery of hatred comes through in the novel in the concrete ways that Glicera acts and speaks in the context of her relationships. Eventually, she earns herself a villain's monologue, the book's full imagery depiction of her character's nature. While proudly humiliating her victim after using sexual intimacy to rob him of his money, she laughs and invites other women into the humiliation. This shows a kind of emotional violence that stems from Glicera's hatred. Where does that hatred originate? In her disappointment that life does not privilege her the way her pride makes her crave.
