![]() With such violence in these characters’ internal worlds, and such a maddening external impassiveness, those inner passions are bound to break out somehow, and it won’t be pretty. The novel repeatedly shows the frictions between huge passion and chilling detachment, between desires that are fed and those that are denied. Across the three parts, we are pressed up against a society’s most inflexible structures – expectations of behaviour, the workings of institutions – and we watch them fail one by one. ![]() The Vegetarian is a story in three acts: the first shows us Yeong-hye’s decision and her family’s reaction the second focuses on her brother-in-law, an unsuccessful artist who becomes obsessed with her body the third on In-hye, the manager of a cosmetics store, trying to find her own way of dealing with the fallout from the family collapse. (What happens when they have to go to dinner with his boss? And his wife not even wearing a bra any more! What will people think?) Her sister, In-hye, struggles with her sense of familial responsibility, while learning that, even when a family member is in trouble, there is only so much others can do. Her husband is frustrated at this complication in his meticulously uncomplicated life, and can’t help thinking it’s all about him. ![]() ![]() Other people are dragged in, other relationships fray and Yeong-hye’s vow to remain vegetarian is the one constant in a family disintegrating before our eyes. ![]()
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