Anastasia Steele, a literature student, meets Christian Grey, a young entrepreneur, when she goes to interview him. Christian is attractive, intelligent, and frightening. The unworldly, naïve Ana is astonished to realize she wants this man and that she is yearning to get close to him despite his enigmatic reserve. Grey acknowledges that he wants Ana too, but only on his terms because he is unable to resist her understated beauty, wit, and independent spirit.