She is stuck, and finds herself executing tasks that have little to do with what her actual role requires, even though she is college-educated and fully qualified to take on more responsibility within the company. She feels like her job is a dead end, unsure of how she could be promoted, since it appears that there is no better position available at the company.
Marian works at Seymour Surveys, a market research company that employs mainly women. Although Marian and Ainsley spend a lot of time together, Marian doesn't feel particularly close to Ainsley. Ainsley is a loud, outspoken feminist who drinks liberally and leads an active sex life that she flaunts and talks often about to Marian and her coworkers. The two women rent the apartment from the "lady down below," who is highly critical of the two women's lifestyle-although most of the behavior that she disapproves of, like their drinking, is actually attributable to Ainsley, not Marian-partially due to her fear of their "improper" behavior influencing her daughter. Marian McAlpin lives in an apartment that she shares with one roommate, Ainsley, in an unnamed city in Canada. It uses food, and Marian's growing inability to consume various foods after her engagement to Peter due to imagined metaphorical cannibalism, to explore female experiences in society. Set in an unnamed city in Canada, the novel focuses on themes of gender, expectations of women, masculinity and femininity, and female agency. The Edible Woman revolves around Marian McAlpin, a young woman who experiences a crisis of identity after her boyfriend, Peter, proposes to her.
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