> First, the characteristics of Jessica are born out of utter privilege. Look:

>> she hates bragging. In anything she does that's publicly visible, her biggest fear is that it will seem ostentatious (…) She has a horror of ostentation so visceral it's almost a phobia.

> Who can afford to be silent about their successes? Someone who has a habit that her successes will he recognized...

You have already convinced me that you have very little conception of "non-alpha" people. Ditto of introverts. Ditto of those with shyness or social phobias. {Etc.}