She also knows how to lift his spirits when he is low. Lizzie is forced to walk in eggshells around him, keeping away secrets that would invoke his sour moods. The situation worsens the cracks in Lizzie's and Diner's marriage as he grows even more irritable and violent towards her. In the end, he is forced out of business, and the unfinished palaces are said to be a spectacle of ruin. Diner is particularly resentful of Diner and Augustus who have publicly shown their support for the revolution that is bleeding him dry (Johnson, 2017). Often, Lizzie is caught in a tug of war between her mother and husband as each tried to pull it in the hope that the other would let go without much success. Lizzie and Diner have a tense marriage characterized by mistrust and coercion to which Lizzie responds rebelliously (Johnson, 2017). His pathological jealously grows so dangerously that on the few times that she does go out, he follows her on occasion. Lizzie's view of her husband gradually changes as he begins to control her, forbidding her to go out while not allowing her to host visitors either. She further queries whether it is so wrong that he desires to build rather than destroy. She vehemently defends him saying that Diner is a person that takes action he makes his mark (Johnson, 2017). Julia is married to a fellow radical who, like her, celebrates and welcomes the French revolution whereas Lizzie gave into her passion for Diner, against her mother's warning. When the story begins, both Lizzie and her mother Julia have recently been wed, and both of them are prejudiced against the choice of the spouse of the other.
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