I've never treated you like a hooker

Edward wanted to put Vivian up at an apartment instead of making a commitment and living together. Basically, she felt that she was being asked to be his personal hooker that he can visit any time and have sex with.

I'm confused as well because he DID treat her like a hooker. That's what the entire movie was about - why he HIRED her, paid her, and was willing to let her go because she was an "employee". Ridiculous. Of course he treated her like one, right from the beginning. 😝

He says 'prostitute' rather than hooker, at least in the UK version. I think it has zero to do with paying her to stay in the hotel and everything to do with the fact that word was still in his mind as to what she was. He was her prince - the only word starting with p that should have been in his mind in all the possible ways you could think of her was 'princess'.

This is how the scene went down:
He had offered her an apartment, extra cash, and cell # he could be reached at, etc.
She hesitantly responded something along the lines of "it's a pretty sweet offer for a girl like me."
His response was "I've never treated you like a prostitute."
That's when she said "you just did."

The way I interpreted it was that when she said "a girl like me" she meant a poor, uneducated woman living on her own working day to day. But all Edward could see is the 'prostitute', hence his response.

I was a little confused but I always thought it must be the point, when he says I've never treated u like a prostitute, bang right there, that line... was when he did, by saying it or maybe I'm not right..

I thought it had to do with the fact that he didn't ask her what she wanted. He told her he had made arrangements for an apartment and for money, assuming that she wanted to have that from him. She was still going to be his "beck and call girl ", and he assumed she would be fine with that.

The whole movie he is always looking at people and things as objects. He slowly starts to appreciate her for her. Instead of treating her like a girlfriend or a person even in the end he still treated her like an object with his offer.