"A Story about the Body"

This was a very confusing short story. I read the author's bio and I thought I would read this zen like piece of poetry. To my surprise I did not find anything to be that of poetic origins however I did learn that the man character was in a sense one of the shallowest men ever.
A women stands there in a very vulnerable, let me offer myself to this man, kinda way and he completely rejects her based on the fact that his preconceive notion about her body had been false. I visually see this woman ready to offer herself over, even after her body had been put to harsh extremes and his words cut deep. "I'm sorry, I don't think I could" reading these lines honestly evoked very strong emotions in me. Surgeries that involve removing ones breast are extreme and in a way de- womanizing. He is neither sensitive nor feeling in the way that one should be. It is not the fact that he rejects this woman but his rejection of her was based off of superficial reasoning.
I was disappointed by this story. In the same breath I wonder if the main character is just shallow or is he afraid that by sleeping with this woman he will destroy his view of the beauty he saw in her. Either way his reasoning seems to be cruel. I am not condoning lustful relationships but his motives and justification were very harsh, non sympathetic, and I would imagine that it left the woman feeling very broken.
I am not sure what exactly the bowl she leaves for him symbolizes but perhaps the bees were a sign of how stinging his words were. She may have even seen this sense of he seemed at first as appealing as a rose but as she dug deeper she saw what lied below the surface, a harsh, cold reality of who he really was. I imagine that he lives alone due to the fact that he is only able to love the surface of a person. I could be harsh in my assumptions but I feel as though the character is one that is written to evoke emotion.