She had nothing to do with 人格和气节.
There is sentence: Giving up champagne in favour of Coke may well be inverted snobbery.
First of all, she was snobbery. she gets 华丽的袍子, and champagne in Shanghai after she has famous. And what happened next? 逆反势利行为.
And she's always a writer, in someway, a good writer.