Later that night, Marian attempts to run away again, but Peter pulls up with his car and tells her to get in. She intends for her running away to signal to Peter that she wants to break up with him, but as she struggles to speak her emotions aloud to anyone, she allows herself to be caught by Peter. When the group leaves for the night, Marian runs away from them down the street. Marian, overwhelmed by the sudden realization that she and Peter are in a more serious relationship than she intends, hides in the bathroom to cry.
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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