Peter eats steak at dinner, which repels Marian as she watches him execute the same action she subconsciously feels he is doing to her-eating her, devouring her, erasing her personhood. Food (Motif)įood appears throughout the novel as a representation of life. The pink cake, baked in the shape of a woman, is a physical representation of Marian, herself however, when she offers it to Peter-an action that revokes passivity, since she, herself, offers the body to him rather than simply letting it be taken advantage of-he is repelled by the explicit nature of his own desire to consume female bodies, and leaves Marian, embarrassed. The cake that Marian bakes at the end to determine whether Peter is destroying and consuming her symbolizes a woman who is totally passive and allows herself to be taken advantage of and devoured by a man.
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