>>262104I don't think so. To me it seems more likely that what irritates Margaret evolves in direct correlation to her dwindling finances and power.
At the start of this she was, for all intents and purposes, financially stable and in a position with a massive upper hand. She had control of the majority of Venus's social media accounts. She was established as Venus's mother which gave her word at least some kind of credence. She had primary control of, and sole access to, V's bank account. She had years of successfully conditioning Venus under her belt. To Margaret, she still had Venus completely underfoot, but unfortunately juuust out of reach. To her, Venus was either bluffing or would soon buckle under the weight of Mag's wrath, but either way she would be rushing back to her mother's arms shortly. She never anticipated Venus exerting this kind of backbone. So because Margaret still had money and power, and thus security, she considered herself above them in every way that mattered, so they and their situation were inherently inferior. Sure, she was showering at the airport and eating sausages, but this wasn't her natural state, merely a product of Venus's cruelty and disobedience. It was a sign of how much Marg had suffered at the hands of Venus - proof of how heartless her daughter had become, and how selfless she was to endure so much in order to get her back - not an indication of how low she had stooped. Venus, however, had
voluntarily settled for a life with a mere factory worker, living in an apartment that didn't even have an adequate kitchen by Margaret's high standards. When she was riding high, it was a lot easier to look down her nose at them.
But now, here we are months later, and she's quickly running out of money, time, and influence. She has no security, no home, she's pawning off what little she has to try and scrounge together enough cash to get by, and she's getting angry. So the gears started turning the other way. Instead of viewing the situation through the lens of "Oh Venus, how pitiful that you have stooped so low", she switched to "Venus, how dare you live better than me!". Instead of seeing their life for all that they
don't have, she's started seeing everything they
do have. The more she loses, the more jealous she'll become.
(Apologies for the essay)