The Love Triangle in The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

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The novel is Set in 1960’s Toronto and the story revolves around Marian Mcalpin and her engagement in different spheres of her life be it her career, personal and emotional life. The storyline and tale of The Edible Woman revolves around Marian Mcalpin, a woman who has graduated and has started working as an interviewer for a food corporation, and has a good-looking boyfriend named Peter Wollander. Peter has an amiable image as he is physically well built, earns good money as a lawyer, and exhibits the Stereotypical and orthodox behaviour of a gentleman. In Contrast the novel has with Peter there is Marian’s Lover namely Duncan. He is an undergraduate student, has unhealthy eating habits and his behaviour fraudulent and damages the image of a successful man. In the story, there exits a love triangle between Marian, Peter and Duncan, which is represented and portrayed by by doll figures that point towards their posture in society.
Marian, the female protagonist of the classic Canadian literature The Edible women resist, struggle and fight in opposition to between the role, functions and responsibility that society has forced upon her and her own meaning of self and identity. The food in this novel plays a very significant role and thus becomes the symbol and representation of that struggle and fight and her ultimate revolt.

Her act of not consuming food is a response and a reaction to the social pressure that has been thrust upon her by force. This act of Marian is a protest a modern and patriarchal society. Towards the end of the novel she rebuilds a new personality and quality through a renewed and refresh relationship to food. Through the eating routine of Marian, Margaret Atwood have revealed the Differences and vari...

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Emma Parker, one of the popular critics believes that in Margaret Atwood's novels: Food acts as a form of female self-expression eating and non-eating illustrate resistance to the system of oppression. Atwood's protagonists are unendingly oppressed by parents, partners, peers or by society as a whole. They try to protect their selfhoods by psychic distancing of their selves from their bodies and by physical loss or increase of weight.

Marian’s body repudiate and rejected anything that may at one time have been alive. Her repulsion, horror and dreadfulness at the act of consuming flesh correspond with her estrangement, alienation, isolation and Impassiveness and detachment from the society. Marian started feeling that she had become a passive, submissive and flaccid who as an individual is watching society with deplorable and shocked vision and not performing an

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