As in Atwood's other foray into sexual politics exposes the alienating forces in contemporary society which thwart the individual's attainment of an integrated identity. Joan gradually discovers that all the people she knows are as fragmented and unknowable as she believes herself to be.
In reaction against the conditions that seem to deny her control over her life, she wills into being several distinct personae for herself, attempting thereby to repudiate her past and to allow her imagination freer rein than society normally tolerates. She thus makes the fractured modern ego the foundation of her complicated.....
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