Charles is not a monster,” Anjali clarified, “but what he is doing to her is monstrous. He has taken all from her that matters, her studies, her passions. He allows his wife to reduce her to a shadow, less than a person. She is permitted nothing of her own, not a dream, not an ambition. He gives all control over to Mary Hathaway, and because she fears what people will say more than anything, she strives to break Effie’s spirit as one would break an unruly horse. It is an untenable situation.”
