Stereotyping Domestic Violence in Sanctuary

Sanctuary is a novel that criticizes the upper classes stereotyping of domestic violence being inherit in the lower classes. Temple is a collegiate woman from the upper class who finds herself in a low class household for the first time in her life. This is due to the fact that she has been hanging out with a drunkard, the exact person her father and four brothers have been warning her about her whole life. Once she has arrived at the Southern house, the woman of the house, Ruby, warns her that she needs to get lost before dark. Why this is the case is left ambiguous for some time but there is reason to believe that one of the many men in the house will take advantage of her if she is still there by dark. Temple continully aludes to the fact that she is of a higher class then the people of who's company she currently keeps by saying "my father's a judge, my father's  judge" (51). The implication here is that it's not acceptable for her to be raped but it's acceptable for woman like Ruby to be raped because of the social class distinction. It's difficult to imagine why Ruby would be so keen to be rude to Temple, then.
As a result of the stereotypical violence that we can assume Ruby lives with and/or experiences regularly, she has become a stronger woman for it and doesn't let the men push her around. There is this idea of experience that comes with being around domestic violence. Ruby alludes to this when she tells Temple "you'll slip out at night with the kids, but just let a man come along" (57). By this she means that Temple has only hung around boys, or upper class collegiate men who would do her know harm, presumably, and that real men are from the lower class and are abusive towards their wives. It is a way for Ruby to gain the upper hand over Temple since Temple is an upper class woman who is trying to flee Ruby's household because she feels as though the men here will do her harm. She believes that as an upper class woman she must be highly desired by lower class men which obviously offends Ruby because Ruby is a lower class woman who the men ignore.
The turning point in the relationship between Temple and Ruby is the night Temple trys to sleep at the house while Gowon is an unconscious sleep from drinking and fighting. Ruby stays up all night watching Temple, making sure the men leave her alone and eventually helps her get away from the men. The implications of this pivotal moment in their relationship being that in order to overcome this stereotype that states that domestic violence is acceptable and justifible in the lower classes, the upper classes need to readjust their thinking towards the lower classes.