“There’s a lot to compensate for, when you’re the only Argantian in Llyr’s most prestigious literary program.” All at once Effy was suffused with sympathy—and with guilt. She remembered how she had berated him on the cliffside, and then again in the pub, pricking at him, questioning his loyalties. “I’m sorry if people have treated you cruelly. I’m sorry for the things I said, when we first met.” “It’s really all right,” he said, turning to look at her. “It’s just whispers and looks in the hall, mostly. I’m sure you’ve gotten your fair share as the only woman in the architecture college.”
"When we first met"? All throughout the relationship, you mean!
Is she HIGH? Does she think that because she doesn’t *angrily* say something xenophobic that it doesn’t mean it is? A micro-aggression is a micro-aggression, no matter if you say it calmly or present it as a joke. She others him constantly, contributing to the alienation he feels (and in a place where he in actuality has *citizenship through his mother*),
I don't like this character and the way she is presented by the author. Effy is horrible. Just because she is persecuted doesn't mean she gets a free pass to persecute someone else.
Preston is being way too understanding about this. It’s sad.
