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.
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