The book Edible Woman,by Margaret Atwood, is written in 1960s when the males dominated society. Women want to prove that they could do everything men can do. Women were not allowed to give their opinions. The book talks about a women named Marian McAlpin who starts to face problems in her relationship and towards food. Marian’s eating habits, and appetite gets worse day by day.She starts to see food as living things. This essay will seek to prove that Marian’s rejection towards food acts as a way to show her rejection to the male dominated society. Marian is a well educated women, and she works in a market research place. She lives in a house apartment with her roommate Ainsley Tewace. She has a boyfriend named Peter. Marian has a large appetite. Since her boyfriend has proposed to her, Marian is unable to consume food properly. . The first section will be examining how Marian starts to lose her appetite. Marian has a large …show more content…
As time passes by Marian stops eating certain things like eggs, vegetables, cake, and meat. I mean, I haven’t been eating them lately. Meat for instance, and eggs, and certain vegetables(208). Marian opened the soft boiled egg and saw the yolk looking up with its one significant and accusing yellow eye, found her mouth closing together like a frightened sea-anemone(174). Marian looked down at her own half-eaten steak and suddenly saw it as a hunk of muscle. Blood red. Part of a real cow that once moved and ate and was killed, knocked in the head as it stood in a queue like someone waiting for a streetcar(164). I don’t seem to be hungry anymore(164). When she sees those foods her body reacts to them negatively, and giving her weird responses. Marian doesn't seem to know and she is depending on Peter. She can’t seem to do it on her own. She had fallen into the habit in the last month or so of him choose for