Len chases her and Peter and Ainsley try to head her off with the car. Marian becomes overwhelmed when she feels like an accessory to Peter at the dinner and she runs away from the group. She plans to seduce Len and make him the father of her baby and Marian is torn as to whether to warn her friend or let the cards fall where they may.

One of Marian’s old college pals arrives in town and Ainsley shows up at a dinner date with Marian and Peter, dressed much younger than her age. Marian disapproves but can see that Ainsley is determined. Ainsley also confides in Marian that she has decided to have a baby, but not bother with getting married. She tells Ainsley who thinks it is a bad idea and decides not to tell anyone at work for fear of losing her job. Peter asks her why the two of them “shouldn’t get married” and Marian is surprised at the proposal, but accepts. When Marian sees him a few days later, however, his mood seems to have changed. When Peter’s last college friend gets married, he is deeply troubled. He is a handsome young lawyer who lives in a nice apartment and Marian believes that their relationship is exclusive, but casual. Marian has been dating Peter for several months and only sees him on weekends. The woman who owns the home lives downstairs with her teenage daughter and is very strict about what her tenants do so that it will not corrupt “the child.” Marian and Ainsley have only known each other for a few months but have an amiable roommate agreement where each cleans and is busy with her own job and life. She lives with her roommate Ainsley in a small apartment, that is a converted servant’s quarters and part of a larger home. She types up the questionnaires on the products that the company is testing and goes door-to-door asking questions of consumers.

She is a college graduate in her mid-20s who works writing questionnaires for a survey company. The book opens with a typical day in the life of Marian McAlpin. Switching between the first-person and third-person narrative and painting an accurate picture of the typical issues a young professional woman dealt with in the 1960s, The Edible Woman is a study in the evolution of women’s roles in the mid-20th century. Margaret Atwood insists that the book should actually be considered “proto-feminist” because she completed writing it in 1965.

Due to the book’s exploration of gender stereotypes and when it was released, many have associated it with the feminist movement in North America. “The Edible Woman” was first published in 1969 and was written by the Booker Prize-Winning author Margaret Atwood.

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