I read this book when I was engaged to somebody I was slowly beginning to realise was not for me and so found a lot of my internal experience within the pages of The Edible Woman. I quite enjoyed the metaphor especially because I think we can tell so much of our emotional and mental states by our eating patterns and disturbances so it's quite realistic while being metaphorical. I think this book shows that Atwood is not just tapped into the greater institutional issues women face but even the smaller, mundane, personal issues that are a product of patriarchy and of women growing up having their identities being so alien to them as this is secondary to the needs and wants and actions of others.