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This feature of the narrative speaks to Rowson's motives for writing Charlotte Temple: The novel is intended to teach virtue, and by making Charlotte as bland as possible, Rowson makes it easy for any young woman to identify with her experiences.

Rowson's comparison of romantic relationships to financial transactions also draws attention to the ways that women are objectified by men.

She begs to be allowed back into the family.

He then proposes to Julia, although he continues to blame himself for corrupting Charlotte and is plagued by feelings of guilt.

However, his father refuses to endorse a marriage to a poor woman, so Montraville makes Charlotte his mistress and brings her to America with him.

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Madame Du Pont The upstanding, kindly headmistress of Charlotte's boarding school in Chichester.

She decides to befriend Charlotte, even though it will endanger her own social status to associate with a fallen woman.

Temple's father, the Earl of D---, to get revenge on him.

Temple's father also does this, when he tries to calculate the financial advantage or lack thereof of his son marrying Lucy Eldridge.

He abandons her without giving her the money.