![]() Her thoughts of cannibalism represents her fear of consumption. We get images of this through out the book. She needed to escape the thoughts that resided in her unconscious mind. Duncan, however, treats the test as a psychological evaluation ex amplifying that one should think and question what is simplistic. Her job is to chew up words to make it easier for people to read and understand and then test these people with her revisions. We see a shift of characteristics between Duncan and Marian. A future she hadn't began to question until she met Duncan. She feared the very thought of the "pension plan" for it symbolized the future. She feared living a married life with children, miserable like Carla. ![]() She feared the thought of being the annoying old lady in the basement. She began feeling crippled by the mundaneness of her already mapped out life. Her relationships with people, friends, and her boyfriend, were purely surface. After she graduated college she started her simplistic job. ![]() They work with each other even though the conscious mind may not know it.Ītwood's main character, Marian McAlpin, was ordinary. The mind and body have an inter connection. ![]() We see how the unconscious affects a woman mind unknowingly. Jung's comment, "The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when the conscious reason is blind and impotent", is indicative to Margaret Atwood's book The Edible Woman. ![]()
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