Again, I say that the pageant interest is very cultural. There are signs everywhere I go announcing upcoming pageants of every type, for all age groups. I have never been in the pageant circuit, but have friends who have been and who are--they, and now their daughters. I can't claim to know anything about Patsy's true personality but I do know that her interest in pageantry can be normal to her southern culture. I really don't see it any differently than my husband/I spending thousands of dollars over the years for our sons to have private batting lessons, attend baseball camps, basketball camps, football clinics, etc... We allowed those things because our sons had those interests, and because they and we wanted them to be the best. Did it make them the best? Not always. They aren't professional athletes nor did they ever win any money to repay us for all we spent. It was a family-thing~~something to be involved in as a family, something to rally around, something to help build their self esteem, something to spend all the extra money we had that we needed to get rid of (NOT) LOL.
Perhaps Patsy is a narcissist; I don't know her. I do know other people personally who could be catergorized as such. I'm sure that if I were put under a microscope I would have many personality flaws and characteristics that would come to light. JBR is portrayed by her parents as being a certain way. That may not even be accurate. In reality, she may have been a selfish bratty little girl who loved the limelight and wanted all the attention for herself. People have a way of idolizing loved ones in death.
I think it comes down to the fact that Patsy's hobby was pageantry. This flowed over onto JBR, who also liked pageantry, for whatever reasons. They spent lots of time and money on it for whatever reasons. Unless we know them personally, then I don't think we can truly know for what reasons.
IMO