Marguerite

Marguerite is a character who was deleted from the final in Beauty and the Beast.

Background
Marguerite is the snobbish sister of Maurice from the alternate Beauty and the Beast beginning. She moves in with Maurice and his daughters to "help" him out; like taking care of Belle and Clarice. When Maurice loses his ships at sea, thereby losing his fortune, she along with the rest of the family have to move to a small cottage in the country which she doesn't like one bit.

Role in the film
Marguerite is first seen in the alternate beginning pulling up to Maurice's mansion in a carriage laden with luggage as her family is playing in the yard. After telling her footman to unload her belongings around the back of the house, prodding the horse with her parasol to get it going and remarking "idiot" as the footman trips when the carriage starts moving, she saunters up to her brother and explains why she has come. A few days later, after the family has moved into the cottage, Maurice recieves notice from two soldiers that his taxes are overdue and he will lose the house if he doesn't pay them. Marguerite remarks that she knew this would happen and suggests that to get money, Maurice should either sell his late wife's music box that Belle has just recived for her birthday or marry Belle off to someone rich. After Maurice leaves to do the former, Marguerite invites Gaston, who in this version is a marquis to come to tea so that he may attempt to persuade Belle to accept his previously rejected marriage proposal. Later, when her niece states to Gaston that she will need time to think about whether or not she will become his wife, she says that Belle is just shy and that he should come back the next day. Marguerite is last shown telling her nieces that Maurice is getting what he deserves by being lost in the storm because he ran off and left them alone with her.

Trivia

 * Marguerite was the closest characterization to Belle's wicked sisters in the original tale.