However, from the day she arrives as a bride, she tears the household apart. She drains Şevket's blood with her obsession with society life, invitations, luxury, and ostentation. She abandons her husband, who goes to prison for committing theft to keep up with her expenses, without the slightest bit of pity. Throughout the novel, she plays the role of the microbe of immoral, parasitic, and corrupt modernization that infiltrates the family.
