How does our perception of Fran, Drayle's wife, change over the course of the novel, Wench?

Throughout most of the novel, Fran appears to view Lizzie as her competition and treats her cruelly. When she first learns of Drayle's affair with Lizzie, she takes to pinching her in private, leaving tiny bruises across Lizzie's body. Fran is unable to have children of her own, so she "adopts" Lizzie's children as her own, raising them in the Big House, dressing them as dolls, and taking them for extravagant shopping trips. Soon after, she grows bored of them and sends them back into the slave barracks. By the end of the novel, Fran is a more sympathetic character as she admits to Lizzie that she never hated her and that she was just jealous of the relationship Lizzie had with her husband.