The Edible Woman

by Margaret Atwood

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The Edible Woman Questions and Answers

Examine The Edible Woman as a female bildungsroman.

Discuss the role that Duncan plays in The Edible Woman.

Can someone please explain the ending of The Edible Woman to me?

In "The Edible Woman," how does food play a role in developing relationships?

What are the themes of The Edible Woman?  

In "The Edible Woman," what are Peter's and Marian's different understandings of the heart-shaped cake? What does it tell us about the respective roles they play in their relationship?

In "The Edible Woman", how does Marian relate to the world through food? Explain the reasons.

What does Marian achieve through cooking?

What's the significance of Len's character in The Edible Woman?

How is The Edible Woman an anti-comedy? What are some examples and meaning? What could be the thesis?

What are the recurrent motifs Atwood uses?

In "The Edible Woman", why doesn't Marian like to eat? How does Marian rebel against society through the food?

In "The Edible Woman," Peter says to Marian "women are so much better at arranging on plate." What aspects of food  does he associate with women? What does this tells us about his relationship with Marian? is this comment here related to the way in which Marian is dressed for the party?

What is the meaning of the pronoun shifts in the three parts of The Edible Woman?

What is the role played by The Lady Down Below in The Edible Woman?

What's the significance of the cake baking episode in The Edible Woman?

In "The Edible Women" why does Marian reject the beauty ideal that the red dress stands for?

What is the climax in the book The Edible Woman ?

In "The Edible Women" After reading the instructions for cooking turtles, Marian compares it to the"early Christian martyrs" what does it emphasize?

How is this book similar to our present day lives?

What is the theme of this novel based on Marian's relation to food?  

What are the similiarities  between Chocolat and The Edible Woman?

In "The Edible Women" What do Peter's and Marian's different understandings of the heart-shaped cake (chapter 23)? what it tell us about the respective  roles they play in their relationship?

In The Edible Woman how does Marian describe the connection between food and family, friends or community?

In "The Edible Woman," Marian has dinner with Duncan's roommates and she does not eat a variety of things. What are the reasons behind this?

What is the main theme and feministic approaches?

What is the importance of the different landscapes throughout the book?

How can I compare/contrast The Edible Woman with The Great Gatsby or Hamlet through a feminist lens? (I need a developed thesis and 3 arguments as I am provided with an essay outline)

Is there any use of allegory in The Edible Woman?

Would you regard Ainsley's 'pregnancy project' as a success? Please explain with close reference to the text.

In The Edible Woman what are the arguments (points) about how Marian relate to the world through the food?

Narrate the significance of the cake at the end of the novel The Edible Woman.

What are the differences between "Chocolat" and "The Edible Women"?

How do I write an thesis statement on the themes of The Edible Woman? 

In The Edible Woman and Chocolat, what is the role that food plays in developing relationships?

In The Edible Woman,Marian brings frozen food at Peter's apartment. How does she use cooking to interact with Peter in her life?

How is she interacting with Peter through baking cake?

What are some of Atwood's strategies of developing various versions or archetypes of womanhood? How does this strategy contribute to a fuller understanding of Marian's character?

Examine Atwood's prose style, paying special attention to language as an element of narration in The Edible Woman.

In The Edible Woman, when Marian saw Carla and her babies, what did she think about that scene?

In "The Edible Woman" Duncan eats pumpkin seeds in the movie theatre, which Marian thinks are "like some primitive signal" which "she could not interpret." Explain. 

In "The Edible Woman," Marian's refusal to eat is seen as "rebelling against the system." Does Marian's rebellion have anything to do with her identity?

How does Margaret Atwood offer no hope and create an inevitable fall from innocence which continues to spiral downwards in The Edible Woman?

In The Edible Woman how does the protagonist influence social and cultural norms and how is she affected by traditions and societal expectations?

Is there a common theme shared among the novels Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood, and Chocolat by Joanne Harris?

Compare The Edible Woman and Chocolat for the female protagonists' ways of cooking and what they achieve by it.