The Edible Woman | Characters
Atwood describes Marian McAlpin as "someone who does not know what to do with her life." She begins the novel as a seemingly liberated female: She works as a writer for a marketing research firm, engages in an easy-going sexual relationship with a successful young attorney, and wryly dissects the life of the traditional wife and mother represented by her eternally-pregnant friend Clara. But in fact Marian lacks any smugness about her own daily routine since she realizes there is no direction or purpose behind it. Set in the mid-1960s, before the inroads of the Women's Movement had begun...
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what are the recurrent motifs atwood uses in the edible woman?
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