![]() ![]() At the conclusion, first person narration returns, consistent with the character's willingness to take control of her life again. The narrative point of view shifts from first to third person, accentuating Marian's slow detachment from reality. Ītwood explores gender stereotypes through characters who strictly adhere to them (such as Peter or Lucy) and those who defy their constraints (such as Ainsley or Duncan). In a foreword written in 1979 for the Virago edition of the novel, Atwood described it as a protofeminist rather than feminist work. Marian begins endowing food with human qualities that cause her to identify with it, and finds herself unable to eat, repelled by metaphorical cannibalism. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated. It is the story of a young woman, Marian, whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus. The Edible Woman is the first novel by Margaret Atwood, published in 1969, which helped to establish Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. ![]()
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