How do you navigate the weight of life and all the patriarchal violence inflicted on you, without going... mad? Without detaching yourself from reality and wanting to turn into a tree, like Daphne did? 

The first two parts enraged me so (not because the text was bad, the characters and situations just feel so real and it was obvious we were meant to sympathize with the men) while the third and last part almost brought me to tears. 

While reading the first part I thought that yeong-hye didn't have a community, that even her family favored the men in her life. By the third part it's apparent that she had In-hye all along, and the struggle of the sister to keep that bond afloat pained me so much.