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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