Self-aware narcissist
Rufus is someone who grew to have everything given to him but at the same time nothing at all. His mother would give him everything he ever wanted while his dad would give him absolutely nothing. Growing up like this gave Rufus a twisted sense of taking whatever you want to (In a way he's getting everything he wants but also he has to "work" for it.) Rufus also has a narcissistic personality as he is a white man growing up in the south during the 1800s and the fact that his mother holds him above everything else. We can look at all of these traits showing up during his interaction with Alice. Having being rejected by Alice, who is a black woman, is too much for his egotistical narcissistic self. He orders Dana to get her for him (much like how his mother used to hand him everything). He doesn't understand that he can't just take anything he wants. When Alice killed herself because of Rufus, he wants Dana to stop blaming it on him. He couldn't take the guil...