Brilliantly explained! This helped me so much in my own understanding of the book. One thing remains masked for me still; why does the pov shift towards her sister in the end ? Her sister who has sort of dealing with the same violence , accepts she has these dreams too ? So what does that shed on the understanding of the situation according to you ?
thank you so much for reading and i am so glad it could be helpful to you. in my opinion, i think the POV shift to In-hye reveals that the violence Yeong-hye resists isn’t isolated, it’s systemic, shared. When In-hye admits she has dreams too, it suggests she’s also haunted by the same suffocating expectations. Her empathy deepens, she is no longer just a caregiver, she becomes a mirror. It blurs the line between sanity and rebellion, showing that the desire to escape isn’t madness, but a quiet, universal ache. But well POVs can vary but this is what i think. She finally realizes the depth of what Yeong-hye feels... maybe.
That’s what I thought but you put it in words in a much better way. To me it also showed two ways of escaping the violence, which is losing yourself in a more metaphorical way ( in hye as she lost herself in all the roles she had to play since childhood) vs losing yourself in a more literal way (yeong- hye as she denounces the world). In either of the way you lose
Brilliantly explained! This helped me so much in my own understanding of the book. One thing remains masked for me still; why does the pov shift towards her sister in the end ? Her sister who has sort of dealing with the same violence , accepts she has these dreams too ? So what does that shed on the understanding of the situation according to you ?
thank you so much for reading and i am so glad it could be helpful to you. in my opinion, i think the POV shift to In-hye reveals that the violence Yeong-hye resists isn’t isolated, it’s systemic, shared. When In-hye admits she has dreams too, it suggests she’s also haunted by the same suffocating expectations. Her empathy deepens, she is no longer just a caregiver, she becomes a mirror. It blurs the line between sanity and rebellion, showing that the desire to escape isn’t madness, but a quiet, universal ache. But well POVs can vary but this is what i think. She finally realizes the depth of what Yeong-hye feels... maybe.
That’s what I thought but you put it in words in a much better way. To me it also showed two ways of escaping the violence, which is losing yourself in a more metaphorical way ( in hye as she lost herself in all the roles she had to play since childhood) vs losing yourself in a more literal way (yeong- hye as she denounces the world). In either of the way you lose
That’s it! That’s the point, isn’t it? It happens to all of us in either ways, subtle or not