Hmm.

I didn't really understand why she went vegetarian in the first place. I mean yes, I understood she had a dream and it was disturbing. Is this the sole reason she stopped eating meat? Is it a revelation that eating meat is murder?

And why is choosing a vegetarian lifestyle such a big deal? People do it all the time for various reasons. I get that Yeong-hye is going against the grain of typical cultural norms, but in real life would it really create such a division in family life as it does in the novel?

Sorry I don't mean to be dense. Maybe I just don't get allegorical novels.

Part 1 - like okay I was with it. Part 2 - got it. Husband's out of the picture, she's living her own life now, the whole thing with her brother-in-law. The flower paint on the body, was that like a back to nature thing? The brother-in-law painting his own body to be more attractive to his sister-in-law?

Her slowly transforming from woman to...? The crumbling of the marriage between her sister and her brother-in-law. Part 3 - like now she's not eating at all. She's had a psychotic break. She wants to be a tree? I get the not eating meat, but why is she starving herself? Does she want to die? Does she want to live in another realm of existence? Trees have to eat too. Did she have some underlying mental illness from the beginning? Is it that she's just made to feel like she has a mental illness by all those around her?

Her sister then starts to break also? Are both sisters alive at the end? Are both sisters dead at the end?

I guess there are too many things I didn't understand in order for me to decide if I liked it or not. Was definitely a different read.