Female characters Vs. Male characters in "Beauty and the Beast"

In Beaumont's "Beauty and the Beast" the author designed the characteristics for the characters that around Beauty for: more positive characteristics toward the male, and negative characteristics toward the females; such as the father, Beast, and three brothers were all designed with gentleman, brave, and thought-for-the-others characteristics. And the female charaters, such as two sisters were designed with jealous, pretense, and  evil-mind charactisterics.

The men figures, which designed with the positive characteristics in the story, offered greatly caring toward Beauty, such as: in the story, the father willing to sacrify himself to change Beauty's safe; the rich men in the town willing to marry Beauty even she has nothing left after her father's businesss fail; three brothers willing to kill Beast to save Beauty; and Beast willing to starve himself  instead to eat Beauty her when she broke her promise to Beast. But Beuty refused to accept all good offers for her, and saved Beast by granted her promise. These phenomenons reprenting the admires that men offered toward Beauty, and responses from the Beauty to those men were as the representation of her virture and gracefulness heart.

The female charaters (excluded Beauty herself) were doing exactly opposite things as the men's did towart Beauty. Beauty's  two sisters' mind were fullfilled with selfishness, stinginess, and jealous, and some examples in the story can represent these bad charateristics of two sisters'. First, when their father's business fail, two sister not just not doing any house-works but also laugh at Beauty that she doing the things as a maid; when their father about to have some money, two sisters asked for the fancy stuffs, but Beauty only asked to a piece of rose; and when two sisters figured out Beasty treated her better than their husbands treated them, they came up with an evil-plan to prohibit Beauty return to the castle, and wanted Beast to eat Beauty up.

With the contrast between male's positive characteristics and females' negative characteristics toward the Beauty,  Beauty's virtue and her benevolence heart presented more clear and stronger in the story; by the admires she received from men, and by compared her kindness with her sisters' evil-mind.