The Vegetarian

At a certain point its hard to not read this book from a purely allegorical standpoint, at least I think thats what makes the first two parts of this book bearable. It felt like some interesting themes, perhaps drawing a connection between misogynist culture and how humans treat the earth. The first two parts also, to me at least, show polarizing forms of male objectification and lust, the first coldly utilitarian, the second delusional romanticism, and how in both cases they take what they want, which interestingly also seemed like it could tie back into how humans have viewed the earth.
However I suppose its the third part of the novel that awakened me from the dream, as there really is nothing that drives these points home. So then in retrospect, we have a book about a woman who at first makes a somewhat major life choice because of a dream and is brutally persecuted by all the people who claimed to love her, then as she's recovering is persecuted again, then as she's recovering is persecuted again, then recovering from that is indeed continuously persecuted again. In the end I wasn't sure what the point of all this brutalism was.