[PapaNew]

That's interesting because usually it is a man (father or some male figure in her youth) that triggers a woman's rejection of her delicate and fragile feminine nature (which is actually very strong because it is God made, but she can't trust it under the exigent circumstances).

To extend the allegory, the monster may be a man and the effects on a woman can be "monstrous."

[WXRGina]

Mary Shelley wrote “The Transformation” in the first-person tense, as a man. The man was an impetuous, hot-headed fool who loved a girl from his youth (as much as any tyrannical egomaniac can love someone besides himself). He makes a sort of “deal with the devil” to win back the girl.

Although the story has a “happy” ending, it was the man who was a fiend, and learned the hard way to humble himself, but the girl never wavered from her beautiful, feminine sweetness and light.