impossible to live in this stifling place nbsp The thirteenth-floor flat becomes a cage in the sky There is no nature no open ground Han Kang uses this setting to show how city life kills human freedom and spirit The Wife s Desire to Escape The wife once dreamed of traveling the world But after marriage she gives up her dreams Her life becomes mechanical cooking cleaning waiting Slowly her soul rebels Her body begins to change She starts to feel drawn to sunlight and open air She says nbsp As soon as I see the sunlight I get the urge to take my clothes off nbsp This moment shows her wish to return to nature to a pure and honest state of being Transformation as a Symbol of Liberation Her transformation begins with bruises Blue and green marks spread across her skin They are the marks of pain and resistance Later her whole body turns green The husband says nbsp Her entire body was dark green nbsp Her hair shines like wild herbs When the husband pours water on her her body trembles like a leaf These are not signs of sickness but of rebirth She becomes one with nature She escapes the cold walls of the city This change is her silent protest She refuses to remain trapped in a life that denies her spirit The Husband s Role and Failure to Understand The husband represents the modern confined man He is busy practical and emotionally distant He sees her change but cannot feel it He calls her sadness strange He cannot understand that his wife s illness is her soul s rebellion His ordered life stands against her freedom When he sees her green body he feels fear instead of understanding His love is limited by control Her silence becomes her only way to free herself from his world Death Nature and True Freedom At the end the wife becomes part of the balcony Roots grow from her body Flowers bloom from her chest When her lips open fruits fall out This is the symbol of new life The husband plants them beside her body and smells fresh grass in the air She does not die She returns to nature Her freedom is not physical escape but spiritual liberation Through her Han Kang shows that true freedom means harmony with nature not with city life The Fruit of My Woman is a story of freedom and rebirth The wife escapes pain through transformation In death she joins nature earth air and light The flat becomes a garden Han Kang shows that even in the city the spirit can quietly be free