Yeong-hye does not wear a bra to the dinner, attracting the notice of his co-workers. One evening, the couple has dinner with several of Mr. Over the next few months, Yeong-hye loses weight and starts refusing to have sex with her husband, explaining that his body “smells of meat.” She becomes unable to sleep. He is particularly confused because she had always been skillful at cooking meat. Cheong views this as a selfish and disobedient act, and calls her insane. Cheong is aggravated by this behavior, and becomes even more frustrated when she refuses to cook meat for him anymore. Haunted by this dream, she throws away all the meat in the house. The blandness of their lives changes abruptly when one day, Yeong-hye wakes up in the middle of the night from a graphic dream in which she is violently killing and eating an animal, pushing raw meat into her mouth. Cheong’s insistence that she wear one, she tells him that bras make her uncomfortable. The only strange thing about her is that she sometimes does not like wearing a bra, and despite Mr. Yeong-hye is a woman of few words, cooks and keeps the house, and reads as her sole hobby. Their relationship is normal and unremarkable. Cheong, who lives with his wife, Yeong-hye, in Seoul, South Korea. The first section of The Vegetarian is narrated by a man named Mr.
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