Hard to say. Both. The fact is: the townspeople doesn't really outcast her. They just comment on her dreamy, distracted behavior and her strange love for books, but they find her "strange but special". The baker even tried to make small talk with her, but she rambled about her latest book and he was busy with his job.

Gaston said that "the whole town is talking about it. It's not right for a woman to read". But how can we know he isn't twisting the truth? Or maybe he took Lefou's and his other lackeys' words (to stroke his ego, of course) and took it as the town's general verdict. He may have intimidated people into agreeing with him, like he did with the mob episode.

Of course, Belle is an outcats due to the gender roles and the poor educational system of that time period. She was a previleged person who got to learn the ABC and therefore had access to books. It is implied that her father and her led a good lifestyle between moving to the village. Because of that, Belle couldn't find anyone who shared her interests in the town, which lead to mildly isolating herself from the others. But that doesn't mean she was outcasted by the townspeople, but a victim of the poor government system (I guess).

I will never ever see my favorite, prettiest and smartest princess as a snob!

She wants to talk and connect with people, but they blow her off when she tries to talk to them and bad-mouth her behind her back. They all either want to do everyday chores (like the baker hustling his wife), or gossip about other people (usually her), neither of which interest her. That makes her a snob?

I'd say she was a snob if other characters tried to talk to her and she blew them off, not the other way around.

Snob? How would you feel after YEARS of being called weird and being stared at and gossiped about. She has every right to feel the way they she does.

She's definitely not a snob.

Definitely.

I feel my Belle love slowly sliding downhill.

Everyone thinks she's weird because she reads, how scandalous right;), so she's more of an outcast than a snob.

I don't really think she's either.

I think she's both

She's not a snob; she just had high standards and could find no one in her town to match them. It's not so much that they shut her out as much as the fact that she couldn't make an interesting conversation with any of them.