"Lette’s Song" is a love story/female coming of age story.  It takes the form of a woman reading her diary on the day before she is to be married.  While reading, she relives her past relationship with an older married man.  He is an artist.  After a number of chance encounters, she models for him and falls in love. However eventually he breaks the relationship reasoning “Knowing how to stop at the right place is the greatest love I can give. So, just as Heewon protagonist will always remain in my memory as the last blessing given to my youth, so even in Heewon's memory, I always want to survive with a love without shame.” The novel was viewed as a deep exploration of the interplay between love and moral norms. The title refers to the Lethe river in Greek mythology, a river of the underworld of Hades. Those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness. The artist tells her that a married woman must cross the river, drink from it and forget the past. “Fill your dreams and memories with the rest of your life” he says. An analysis by Jaeun Oh indicated that, in her view, the novel was conceived as a female version of Werther in the novel, "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe. However, Heewon is not as destructive as Werther and in the end she decides to get on with her life.