Reviews: Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis --> Marian's schizophrniaic reaction
According to Jennifer Hobgood, the sturcture of The Edible Woman is
1. paranoia: decomposition and deterritorialization;
2. (Part II): Schizophrenic space;
3. (Part III): reterritorialization, which is akin to D & G's definition of capitalism.
The beginning of Part III illustrates "the repression and neurosis of reterritorialization and the production of a docile "subject,"' whereas at the end of Part III, the protagonist claims the agency, that is, her power.
The cake that Marian made and offered to the male protagonists somehow has also indicated "more than an uncomplicated return to or libertation from the system" for Marian.
As for Judith Ann, she regards Marian as a "secretarial proletoriat." She also notices the setting of the social reality of the class of female worker (like Marian) in 1960s. In the setting like that, Ann reveals, women (even working girls) are "excluded from the empowered (male) class positions, but kept close enough in the power matrix to ensure the continuation of male privilege.
Hobgood relates Marian's relationship and perception and reflection triggered by Clara's and Ainsley's pregnancy and other characters, to Julia Kristeva's discussion of "a radical splitting of the (abject) female subject," mentioned in Powers of Horror.