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... In The Edible Woman, the protagonist, Marian McAlpin, is faced with these obstacles that society presents to her and as well as to others. ... She realizes that she needs to be her own independent woman, thus she rejects passivity. ...
As an approach to reach out to Peter without having to go into a discussion, she makes a cake woman. She styles the cake so that the cake woman would be Peter’s “substitute, something that [he’ll] like better” (Atwood 352). The cake woman is a test for Peter which will be “simple and direct as litmus-paper” (Atwood 346).
Approximate Word count = 2168 Approximate Pages = 8.7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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