![]() Marian goes out for drinks with Len and Peter, but Ainsley unexpectedly shows up and begins flirting with Len. Because of this, Marian attempts to keep Ainsley apart from her friend Len Slank, who recently moved back to town. ![]() Ainsley has decided that she wants to have a child and raise it on her own her plan is to seduce any man with good enough genes. She leaves the interview with no way to get in touch with Duncan again.Īfter visiting her pregnant friend Clara, Marian and her roommate Ainsley discuss the importance of having a child to a woman’s understanding of her femininity. Marian is intrigued by Duncan’s complete lack of interest in her thoughts or emotions, being too self-involved to truly notice her. One of the men she interviews is Duncan, an English graduate student with a codependent relationship with his roommates. Marian is sent out on a sample survey to interview men about a beer commercial. Marian’s life at the beginning of the novel is primarily characterized by her distaste for marriage or beginning a lifelong career at Seymour Surveys. ![]() She lives with her roommate, psychology graduate Ainsley Tewce, and has a casual relationship with the lawyer Peter Wollander. ![]() Having recently graduated from university, Marian McAlpin works at Seymour Surveys rewriting psychology-based survey questions into colloquial language. All quotations in this guide are from the 1998 First Anchor edition of The Edible Woman. ![]()
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