The novel takes place in Toronto in the 1960s and the story revolves around Marian Mcalpin and her involvement in different spheres of her life, whether acts on his career, his personal and emotional life. The plot and story of The Edible Woman revolves around Marian Mcalpin, a college-educated woman who started working as an interviewer for a food company and has a handsome boyfriend named Peter Wollander. Peter has an amiable image as he is physically well-built, earns a lot of money as a lawyer, and exhibits the stereotypical, orthodox behavior of a gentleman. In contrast to Peter, the novel introduces Marian's lover, namely Duncan. He is an undergraduate student, has unhealthy eating habits and his behavior is fraudulent and harms the image of a successful man. In the story, there is a love triangle between Marian, Peter and Duncan, which is represented and depicted by doll figures that point to their position in society. Marian, the female protagonist of classic Canadian literature Edible Women resists, struggles and struggles in opposition between the role, functions and responsibility that society has imposed on her and her own sense of self and identity. Food in this novel plays a very important role and thus becomes the symbol and representation of this struggle and fight and its ultimate revolt. His act of not consuming food is a response and reaction to the social pressure that was forcefully imposed on him. This Marian act is a protest against a modern and patriarchal society. Towards the end of the novel, she rebuilds a new personality and quality through a renewed and refreshing relationship with food. Through Marian's eating routine, Margaret Atwood revealed the differences and variations...... middle of paper ......Emma Parker, one of the popular critics believes that in Margaret Atwood's novels: Food acts as a form Female self-expression through eating or not eating illustrates resistance to the system of oppression. Atwood's protagonists are continually oppressed by their parents, their partners, their peers, or by society as a whole. They try to protect their identity by distancing themselves psychically from their body and physically losing or increasing their weight. Marian's body repudiates and rejects everything that might have been alive at one time. His revulsion, horror and fear at the act of consuming flesh correspond to his distance, alienation, isolation, impassivity and detachment from society. Marian began to feel that she had become a passive, submissive and flabby person who, as an individual, looks at society with a deplorable and shocked view and does not carry out a