Exactly!
She's not content to be clever, or cunning enough to imitate someone else who is...
She has to run her village idiot's free-floating guilt up the flagpole for all to see.
She appears to be a classic example of the puerile weakness that has manifested itself in the human gene pool after we killed off all of the saber-toothed tigers and invented medicine... There are too many folks reaching adulthood that nature had tagged for culling in childhood.