Beauty's sisters marry wealthy men, who apparently have acceptably desirable attributes as husbands. A man is described as a good-looking man. The other man is known to have a great spirit. The two sisters possess qualities that most women look for in a husband, but in the descriptions it is indicated that the two sisters are both unhappy in their marriages. Even if the first husband is handsome, this is a disadvantage for him, because he is a narcissist, concerned only with himself. The second husband's wit is also a serious disadvantage because he uses his intelligence to torment other people, including his wife. It is when Beauty examines her sisters' marriages and the unhappiness her sisters experience in relation to their husbands that helps Beauty realize the Beast's true value and her love for him: “I should be happier with the monster than I was. so are my sisters with their husbands; it is neither spirit, nor a good person, in a husband, that makes a woman happy, but virtue, sweetness of character, and complacency, and the Beast have all these precious qualifications. (9). The juxtaposition made between husbands and The Beast creates the revelation of the appropriate masculine qualities that a man should encompass. De Beaumont presents the contrast of characters to the reader as a method of emphasizing them