In that early scene in The Buccaneers, Nan is visibly shaken during a formal gathering where eligible women are literally paraded in front of aristocratic suitors, essentially to be inspected like livestock. She recoils at the spectacle seeing women led out one by one, standing on display, and judged solely on their appearance and prospects. American “buccaneer” women, despite their wealth, are treated as mere commodities within a rigid British social hierarchy.
MEANWHILE, Nan and her sisters are seeking out men with titles, wealth, and social status like....you guessed it....like cattle.