Shape of a "rising young lawyer." Her roommate has chosen the more deviant course- deliberately incurred pregnancy for the purpose of motherhood, sans the encumbrance of a husband. Marian, our chief focus of interest, is vaguely about the business of acquiring a mate in the It reads, in fact, like a contemporary "My Sister Eileen." One can see how, with a little scissoring, an enterprising dramatist could makeĪ light-hearted series of stage episodes out of the adventures of Marian and Ainsley, two ex-college girls bumpily adrift in a Canadian city. Miss Atwood's comedy does not bare its teeth. This may put the matter more blackly than one should. The Canadian poet Margaret Atwood has written a work of feminist black humor, in which she seems to say thatĪ woman is herself likely to become another "edible" product, marketed for the make appetite that has been created (or at least organized) by the media. In this first novel, however, a female hand gives an extra twist to the switchblade. We are all prone these days to gloomy laughter or comic despair as we consider our lives in consumerdom, the country where in the end we find ourselves consumed- that is, converted into waste by the things we acquire, the goods and packaged ideas dispensedĪlong the supermarket aisles of our culture. OctoThe Girl on the Wedding Cake By Millicent Bell
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