User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/Weiss Schnee beneath the surface/@comment-3257939-20140603215223/@comment-3146930-20140603223613

It could also be something else. While it is true that most of the time, rich girls are played off as lazy and bossy, Weiss is a strange version of the rich girl because she is never played off to be rich. Yes during her first introduction, she is mentioned as being the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, but besides that she never makes mention of her family's wealth and doesn't appear to have anything the other students don't have. However when Peter Port states that she grew up getting everything she wanted, she only says that it wasn't entirely true; this could be taken as Weiss only getting things she wanted and not attention from her parents/father that she needed. She also mentions to Ruby that she is trying to reach perfection.

This could mean something entirely different from an abusive father. Weiss mentions that because of the actions taken against his company by various groups (mainly the White Fang), he would always come home furious. This could have caused Weiss to want to become a Hunter in order to stop those bad people. She wants to be a Hunter to make her dad happy again and earn his respect, eventually earning the right to be the head of the company. In this case, Weiss would be the one pushing herself to be perfect and wouldn't be pushing herself because of her dad, at least not directly. This would also lead to her hatred of the White Fang, rule breakers (Sun), and anyone that she feels will hold her back (namely Ruby at first).