While Marian initially sees Duncan as someone she needs to save, or someone who needs to save her, he pushes her away whenever she tries to get to close. He truly is what he aspires to be, an amoeba, simply floating around no aim or objective. There is no colour, texture or context to his person. ” I used to go out of town and sit on the rocks, about this time of year waiting for the snow…”ĭuncan comes from a place of nothing and just like the snow he waits for he is void of anything but cold, vast whiteness. ” The place I came from, it’s a mining town, there isn’t much of anything in it….” While Marian and the reader search for some deeper meaning or context behind Duncan’s actions, it slowly becomes apparent that Duncan is an allusion to nothing. While every other character we encounter in the novel serves as a cliche for particular gender stereotypes, or gender roles, Duncan does not fit into any particular category. No other character in The Edible Woman is more fascinating or memorable than Duncan. “At last I know what I want to be, an Amoeba.” () I have posted this because I think it is an important allusion to consider. This post is from a section of my week 10 post “Duncan the Amoeba” which can be found on my individual page on the conference blog.
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